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The Evaluation of a Serious Game to Improve Cross-Cultural Competence
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An, Brian; Brown, Donald; Guerlain, Stephanie – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2019
Despite the growth in the use of serious games to train and evaluate cross-cultural competence, few studies have examined the content and dialogue development methods associated with these training systems. This study presents a framework for generating content for serious games targeting culturally appropriate communication and an evaluation of a…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Game Based Learning, Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness
Effects of Typographic Variables on Eye-Movement Measures in Reading Chinese from a Screen
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Yen, Nai-Shing; Tsai, Jie-Li; Chen, Pei-Ling; Lin, Hsuan-Yu; Chen, Arbee L. P. – Behaviour & Information Technology, 2011
To investigate the most efficient way to represent text in reading Chinese on computer displays, three typographic variables, character size (41[feet] arc/24 pixels and 60[feet] arc/32 pixels), character spacing (1/4 and 1/8 character width) and font type (Kai and Ming), were manipulated. Results showed that the reading speed for Chinese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chinese, Reading Rate, Eye Movements
An Intelligent E-Learning Software for Learning to Write Correct Chinese Characters on Mobile Devices
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Tam, Vincent – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2012
Purpose: Learning Chinese is unquestionably very important and popular worldwide with the fast economic growth of China. To most foreigners and also local students, one of the major challenges in learning Chinese is to write Chinese characters in correct stroke sequences that are considered as significant in the Chinese culture. However, due to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Computer System Design, Computer Software
The Collaborative Language Learning Attributes of Cyber Face-to-Face Interaction: The Perspectives of the Learner
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Wang, Yuping; Chen, Nian-Shing – Interactive Learning Environments, 2012
This article examines the degrees of collaborative language learning that were supported in cyber face-to-face interaction. The concept of "cyber face-to-face" is used here to encapsulate the kind of environment in which a combination of real-time oral/aural, visual, and text-based interaction happens simultaneously via the various…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Video Technology, Interaction, Constructivism (Learning)