Whole body interaction for child-centered multimodal language learning

Berto Gonzalez; John Borland; Kathleen Geraghty

doi:10.1145/1640377.1640381

Whole body interaction for child-centered multimodal language learning

Berto Gonzalez^*, John Borland, Kathleen Geraghty

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Abstract

Children engage with the world with their whole bodies, and we suggest here that during dialect learning, as during other learning activities, technology be capable of responding in whole body ways. As the child becomes more engaged in a shared-reality environment, the coordination of the whole-body behaviors between the VP and child should increase, thereby enhancing the experience. In this paper, we present our work on developing a virtual agent that embodies whole-body behaviors and a shared-reality environment that encourages children to use whole-body expression in the context of learning dialect, and science talk.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction, WOCCI '09
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1640377.1640381
State	Published - 2009
Event	2nd Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction, WOCCI '09 - Cambridge, MA, United States Duration: Nov 5 2009 → Nov 5 2009

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Name	Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction, WOCCI '09

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Other	2nd Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction, WOCCI '09
Country/Territory	United States
City	Cambridge, MA
Period	11/5/09 → 11/5/09

Keywords

Analysis and modeling of verbal and nonverbal interaction
Culture
Embodied conversational agent

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Computer Science Applications
Human-Computer Interaction
Software

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Gonzalez, B, Borland, J & Geraghty, K 2009, Whole body interaction for child-centered multimodal language learning. in Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction, WOCCI '09., 1640381, Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction, WOCCI '09, 2nd Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction, WOCCI '09, Cambridge, MA, United States, 11/5/09. https://doi.org/10.1145/1640377.1640381

Whole body interaction for child-centered multimodal language learning. / Gonzalez, Berto; Borland, John; Geraghty, Kathleen.
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction, WOCCI '09. 2009. 1640381 (Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction, WOCCI '09).

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