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Combining Performance Animation and Virtual Reality for Early Childhood Education Role-Play

Kalal, Katherine Frances Talmadge

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2008, Master of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Industrial, Interior, and Visual Communications Design.
Role-playing is an essential component to social skills training in early childhood education. Current programs are either not interactive enough or confrontational and frightening. Combining virtual reality and performance animation can provide an environment for children's learning that is non-threatening, yet interactive enough for authentic, constructive interaction. This study begins with a review of literature and contemporary applications of early childhood education, performance animation, and virtual reality. The question of how performance animation and virtual reality can contribute to a lesson that uses role-play was explored through prototyping components of an immersive environment for role-play with digital characters. Early childhood educators evaluated a prototype and discussed its implications in the field of early childhood education. Conclusions are drawn based on focus group feedback and the designer's experience in combining these fields. Future work in combining performance animation and virtual reality to benefit early childhood education is proposed.
Alan Price (Advisor)
Wayne Carlson, PhD (Committee Member)
Laurie Katz, PhD (Committee Member)
Susan Metros (Other)
107 p.

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  • Kalal, K. F. T. (2008). Combining Performance Animation and Virtual Reality for Early Childhood Education Role-Play [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1213164553

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kalal, Katherine Frances. Combining Performance Animation and Virtual Reality for Early Childhood Education Role-Play. 2008. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1213164553.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kalal, Katherine Frances. "Combining Performance Animation and Virtual Reality for Early Childhood Education Role-Play." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1213164553

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)