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Haptic-Enabled English Education System

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For computer-based education, virtual environments equipped with haptic devices have been used to aid the learning process. The main benefit of haptics technology is that it can improve the realism of virtual environments. This paper describes a haptic-enabled English education system for elementary students. We demonstrate two game-based scenarios which allow users to learn English and scientific laws by exploring in virtual environments with a haptic interface.

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This work was supported in part by a BRL program (2010-0019523) and a Mid-Career Researcher Program (2013R1A2A2A01016907) from NRF and by an ITRC program (NIPA-2010-C1090-1011-0008) from NIPA, all funded by the Korean government.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Korea

    Minh Phuong Hoang, Jaebong Lee, Hojin Lee, Kyusong Lee, Gary Geunbae Lee & Seungmoon Choi

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  1. The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan

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  2. Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

    Hideyuki Ando

  3. Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

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Hoang, M.P., Lee, J., Lee, H., Lee, K., Lee, G.G., Choi, S. (2015). Haptic-Enabled English Education System. In: Kajimoto, H., Ando, H., Kyung, KU. (eds) Haptic Interaction. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 277. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55690-9_53

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