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As the birth rates in Taiwan continue to decline, parents will pay more attention to the coming generation of children and thinking about how to educate them. Many small children spend much time watching television, playing electronic games or using the internet, and less time reading. Pop-up books provide wonderful reading experience with its' interesting interaction and vivid content, becoming an...
TeachAR is an Augmented Reality (AR) tool for teaching English colors, shapes, and spatial relationships to young children aged 4 to 6 years old who are non-native speakers of English. TeachAR utilizes the ARToolkit plugin for the Unity game engine for square marker tracking and game development. The Microsoft Kinect's microphone and speech API is used for isolated word speech recognition, a webcam...
Teaching English to children who do not come from an English speaking background is an interesting challenge for educators. In this paper, we present an Augmented reality (AR) tool, TeachAR, for teaching basic English words (colors, shapes, and prepositions) to children for whom English is not a native language. In a pilot study we compare our AR system to a traditional non-AR system. The results...
Diversity of users has become recent design concerns, and children are one of those user groups. Organization of contents is one of research areas in designing for children. Research suggests differences in abilities between adults and children; for instance, attention, logic and memory skills, and linguistic abilities. This is related to the way children navigate and access information. Efficient...
The touch-screen revolution is not restricted to adults only. Parents find games and educational applications running on touch-screen devices and purchase them for their children. Therefore, very young children are playing with and exploring these touch-screen devices. For any one device there can be hundreds of applications for the parents to choose from, so it is likely that the selection of applications...
Medulloblastoma (MB) is the most common brain tumor in children. Recent studies have demonstrated a relationship between specific signaling pathway abnormalities, a tendency to more favorable outcomes, and a histopathological feature: nodular growth patterns. In this work we present a new segmentation scheme which requires minimal user interaction to segment nodules on MB histopathological sections...
Recently, there has been an increasing concern regarding the effects of electromagnetic waves on the health of humans. The safety of radio frequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMFs) is evaluated by the specific absorption rate (SAR). In recent years, SAR has been estimated by numerical simulation using fine-resolution and anatomically realistic reference whole-body voxel models of people of various...
Constructional ability is a necessary part of everyday functioning for adults and children alike. In children, the need for adequate levels of constructional ability is evident during both recreational and school activities. PlayCubes is a dynamic tool that supports monitoring a variety of the perceptual-motor processes needed while children perform constructional tasks. PlayCubes is based on ActiveCube...
Figure copying is a complex visuo-motor skill that uses aspects of vision and memory to guide precisely directed action. Previous studies have shown that explicit visual training improves the copying abilities of young children. This study considers training in a haptic virtual environment as a method to improve copying abilities in people who show weak performance in such tasks, namely normally developing...
Although the notion of generality is central in mathematics and science, beingable to identify and express general patterns and/or articulate structures is one of the main difficulties for children when they learn mathematics. This paper presents a step towards a set of tools that addresses this problem by encouraging students to connect between actual activities within the task and expressions of...
Studies conducted in Zagreb reported a short-term relation between air pollutant concentrations and emergency hospital visits due to the aggravation of symptoms of the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Air pollution in Zagreb is generally below the limit, and usually within the values recommended by the World Health Organization. Daily variations in the number of emergency room visits...
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