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Transactions: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL of COMPUTERS
Transactions ID Number: 19-261
Full Name: Khaled Ayad
Position: Researcher
Age: ON
Sex: Male
Address: Department of Media Technology, De Montfort University The Gateway Leicester, LE1 9BH UK, BD7 1DP UK
Country: UNITED KINGDOM
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E-mail address: khaled_geo@yahoo.com
Other E-mails: ksf2004@yahoo.com
Title of the Paper: Using edutainment in e-learning application: an empirical study
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Dimitrios Rigas, Khaled Ayad
Email addresses of all the authors: d.rigas@DMU.ac.uk, khaled_geo@yahoo.com
Number of paper pages: 8
Abstract: Philosophers and psychologists' arguments in the area of effective learning and HCI demonstrated that humour or entertainment is one of many important factors that help in developing improved learning. Accordingly students' performance increases in learning environment combined with amusement features. This work investigates the role of edutainment using avatars as tool to represent the entertainment attributes in an e-learning framework. The empirical investigation aimed at measuring usability of two experimental interfaces: typical e-learning and multimodal e-learning system. The usability of these two environments was analysed by one dependent group of users. The results presented here confirmed that edutainment interface as learning medium persuaded users more than the typical version.
Keywords: — Avatar, Edutainment, E-learning, Human Computer Interface (HCI), Multi-modal, Non-edutainment, Virtual reality (VR).
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Special (Invited) Session: Edutainment in E-learning Interfaces
Organizer of the Session: 619-187
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