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Edutainment 2006

Bowdoin Basecamp Site
Research paper [pdf]

Edutainment Conference Site

Conference Information [pdf]

Zhejiang University

State Key Lab of CAD&CG

City of Hangzhou, China

Related Bowdoin projects:
Scrolls of the Mongol Inavsions of Japan
Chinese Scrolls - Spring Festival on the River
Dojoji Scrolls
Heiji Scrolls

Responding to a call for papers, Christina Finneran and Kevin Travers from Bowdoin's Educational Research and Development team wrote a research paper titled 700 Years Later: using Multimedia to Bring the Stories of Medieval Asian Scrolls to Today's Students. The research was based on the technology and discoveries from the various scrolls projects, of which the Mongol Scrolls website was the first.

  The paper was accepted and we were invited to come to China to attend the conference and do a presentation to support our research. It was also published in the book of the conference called Technologies for E-Learning and Digital Entertainment : First International Conference, Edutainment 2006, Hangzhou, China, April 16-19, 2006, Proceedings. It can now be found on Amazon and will soon be in the Bowdoin Library.

  Attending the conference was a great experience. I was able to discuss our projects with people doing similar things from all over the world. I was overwhelmed by the enthusiasm people had for education and I hope I can bring some back from the conference with me. See a full description of the journey and notes from the presentations here. [soon]

Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on E-learning and Games, Edutainment 2006, held in Hangzhou, China in April 2006.

  The 121 revised full papers and 52 short papers presented together with the abstracts of 3 invited papers and those of the keynote speeches were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 467 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics, including e-learning platforms and tools, learning resource management, practice and experience sharing, e-learning standards, mobile learning, education and remote classrooms, effectiveness of VR for education, life long learning, collaborative environments, remote group simulations, collaborative learning, virtual reality in education, game design and development, game engine development, game AI and artificial life, game physics, game rendering, virtual characters/agents, online/mobile game/video game, storytelling and game narrative, affective interaction in games, digital museum, digital heritage, animation techniques, augmented reality, and mixed reality.

download paper
.PDF [1.3MB]

This is the book the paper was published in. Available at Springer.com: Academic Journals, Books and Online Media. They also have an online version available.

Available at Amazon.