１．担当ＰＭ

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２．採択者氏名

３．プロジェクト管理組織

　 有限会社アカデミア

４．採択金額

　 8,415,000 円

５．テーマ名

　 Cyber Assistant: Interface for Online Children Education

６．関連Webサイト

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７．テーマ概要

　This proposal states about the implementation of interfaces for online children education. Our project includes several main functions. First, we propose the online character agent reacts to children’s feeling and actions by associating children’s non-verbal information such as emotions. Second, we propose the guide system Cyber Guide Dog interface to give children graphical information of instructions to make them operate well in the education environment. The information obtained from eye-tracking will help to get the information of the user’s attention. Besides, the physiological signals and the animated text can also be used to provide a visual interface. The idea of this proposal is built on our past projects on online communication using animation and physiological sensors (the Exploratory Software Project 2003). With the interface on children education, the big problem of frustration on children online education will be improved. The online education for children can become a more comfortable process.

８．採択理由

　This is an excellent collection of ideas (perhaps too many for one proposal). I suggest concentrating on the CyberDog part of the proposal and perhaps try to use both eye motion and pupil dilation (which indicates interest and boredom) as inputs to help the CyperTutor to take more appropriate actions.