Using New Learning Technologies with Multimedia
IEEE MultiMedia
A Web-Based Collaboration Teaching Environment
IEEE MultiMedia
The MagicBook—Moving Seamlessly between Reality and Virtuality
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Recent Advances in Augmented Reality
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
The studierstube augmented reality project
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
Multimedia education, distance learning and electronic commerce applications
VSMM '97 Proceedings of the 1997 International Conference on Virtual Systems and MultiMedia
Augmented Reality Kanji Learning
ISMAR '03 Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality
ARWin-A Desktop Augmented Reality Window Manager
ISMAR '03 Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality
An Augmented Virtuality Approach to 3D Videoconferencing
ISMAR '03 Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality
Let's talk! Socially intelligent agents for language conversation training
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
Handheld-card-based telecommunications using handwritten keywords
WBE '08 Proceedings of the Seventh IASTED International Conference on Web-based Education
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We have developed a prototype system that supports language translation for distance lecturing and local learning. The system automatically detects a word displayed in a video image by matching the identified character markers; it then translates the word into the other language and displays the translated word using text, image, and/or sound. The ARToolkit is used as an image-processing tool to search the video image for character markers, which are composed of square frames and registered characters. The use of image processing enables any language to be used as the source language; Japanese is used in the prototype. The use of video makes it easy to implement the system in existing telecommunication systems, because a user just prepares a PC for capturing video images. A Web browser is used as the presentation tool; it can handle any content format normally supported by a Web browser: images, sounds, 3D models, and characters. An automatic voice function automatically reads out words on user demand. The software consists of a character-recognition part (server) and a display part (client); the server controls the client through socket communications. This software architecture makes it possible for one lecturer to simultaneously teach students with various mother tongues, when the clients treat multi-language, because there is a different client for each student. Testing of this language-support system for distance lecturing between Thailand and Japan using a satellite communication system showed that it could be used for both fundamental language lecturing and language translation during international exchange.