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Chapter 12
Case Study of ASCIT:
Fostering Communication through
Interactive Technologies for
Long Term Sick Children
Fabian Di Fiore
Hasselt University, Belgium
Peter Quax
Hasselt University, Belgium
Wim Lamotte
Hasselt University, Belgium
Frank Van Reeth
Hasselt University, Belgium
ABSTRACT
In the ASCIT project, several elements of Multi
user Virtual Environments were integrated into a
demonstrator enabling long term sick children to communicate efficiently with their regular school
and classroom learning environment. By presenting them with an attractive and game
‐
‐
like interface,
combined with state
the-art audio and video communication means, the children were encouraged
to spend time using the system and to keep up with the day
‐
of
‐
day classroom activities. The authors
will describe in detail the three interacting parts in the development cycle. Starting off with the analy-
sis section, the authors describe how the requirements for the system were gathered. In the section on
the technical development, they present an overview of the various technical challenges posed by the
usage scenario, including real
‐
to
‐
time transmission of several high quality audio/video streams. Finally,
user evaluation was performed on the demonstrator to determine to what extent the system efficiently
addressed the identified concerns in the analysis stage.
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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61692-822-3.ch012
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