The ORIENT demonstrator

The ORIENT demonstrator is in the area of refugee children in schools. In this application, role-playing characters interact with child users in a number of different ways so as to create inter-cultural empathy.

While a similar framework of episodes and interaction will be used as in FearNot!, the specification of user scenarios and interaction modalities will be produced shortly and further development of the application will be available within year 2 of the project.
This domain has been chosen for the following reasons:

1. It is a highly significant educational area for which there are currently limited digital materials

2. It allows the investigation of empathy-creation where there is a lack of perceived similarity between users
and characters

3. It hs a political context which is more relevant to the older 13-14year children to be targeted rather than
the 9-11 age group in the first showcase

The ORIENT software will provide a role-play and story-framework for virtual actors. It will incorporate actors-with-attitude with interaction supported through the interaction modalities developed in the ECIRCUS project. The novel models and original architecture that have emerged from the results, recommendations and developments of the FEARNOT! software will be technologically evaluated. This evaluation will be achieved through a range of approaches including the use of a ‘trailer’ – a ‘quick and dirty’ prototype that is to be used as part of a user-centred design approach, Synthetic Character Evaluation Questionnaires and school based evaluation.

see it and try it

In the media section of this website you can see a video of ORIENT.

If you want to try it for yourself, please visit the ORIENT software section to download ORIENT.

Created on 05/08/2006 10:24 AM by ecirweb
Updated on 03/04/2009 12:17 PM by ecirweb