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This paper describes a medium, called Interactive e-Hon, for helping children to understand contents from the Web. It works by transforming electronic contents into an easily understandable “storybook world”. In this world, easy-to-understand contents are created generated by creating 3D animations that include contents and metaphors, and by using a child-parent model with dialogue expression and a question-answering style comprehensible to children.
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Sumi, K., Tanaka, K. (2005). Facilitating Understanding for Children by Translating Web Contents into a Storybook. In: Bolc, L., Michalewicz, Z., Nishida, T. (eds) Intelligent Media Technology for Communicative Intelligence. IMTCI 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3490. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11558637_18
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