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In this paper, we described a media for helping children understand content, called Interactive e-Hon. It works by transforming text into an easily understandable storybook style with animation and dialogue. In this system, easy-to-understand content is created by a semantic tag generator through natural language processing, an animation generator using an animation archive and animation tables, a dialogue generator using semantic tag information, and a story generator. Through our experiment, we have shown that this method of transmitting visual images with verbal information is effective for promoting understanding.
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Sumi, K., Nagata, M. (2011). Interactive e-Hon as Parent-Child Communication Tool. In: Salvendy, G., Smith, M.J. (eds) Human Interface and the Management of Information. Interacting with Information. Human Interface 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6772. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21669-5_24
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