whole body interaction for child-centered multimodal language learning
Children engage with the world with their whole bodies, and we suggest here that during dialect learning, as during other learning activities, technology be capable of responding in whole body ways. As the child becomes more engaged in a shared-reality environment, the coordination of the whole-body behaviors between the VP and child should increase, thereby enhancing the experience. In this paper, we present our work on developing a virtual agent that embodies whole-body behaviors and a shared-reality environment that encourages children to use whole-body expression in the context of learning dialect, and science talk.
culture embodied conversational agent