Moe the Monkey: A Fun Way to Educate Children

Ikram Asghar; Oche Alexander Egaji; Mark Griffiths; David Hinton

Moe the Monkey: A Fun Way to Educate Children

Ikram Asghar, Oche Alexander Egaji, Mark Griffiths, David Hinton

Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science

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This paper presents the development and usability testing of Evoke, an interactive avatar that can see, hear and respond to children in pitch-altered voice in real-time. The system uses Moe, a stylised monkey, as an interaction point between the teacher and children. Children remained fully engaged, responded more openly, and friendlier to the avatar (Moe), which was controlled by their teacher in a separate room. The user testing showed that the children listened to the character and were eager to ask questions, they grabbed and retained information given by Moe.

Original language	English
Pages	1-8
Number of pages	8
Publication status	Published - 4 Sept 2018
Event	12th International Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality & Associated Technologies (in collaboration with Interactive Technologies and Games. ITAG) - Teaching and Learning Building, University of Nottingham , Nottingham, United Kingdom Duration: 4 Sept 2018 → 6 Sept 2018 Conference number: 12th

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Conference	12th International Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality & Associated Technologies (in collaboration with Interactive Technologies and Games. ITAG)
Abbreviated title	ICDVRAT 2018
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Nottingham
Period	4/09/18 → 6/09/18

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Moe the Monkey: A Fun Way to Educate Children. / Asghar, Ikram; Egaji, Oche Alexander; Griffiths, Mark et al.
2018. 1-8 Paper presented at 12th International Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality & Associated Technologies (in collaboration with Interactive Technologies and Games. ITAG) , Nottingham, United Kingdom.

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