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Edutaining school pupils for Japanese hand alphabets

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This paper presents Practice! Yubimoji AIUEO (PYA) to let ordinary elementary school pupils learn basic character expressions (AIUEO) of the Japanese hand characters (Yubimoji). PYA at a Personal Computer has an easy-to-use and look-and-feel visual interfaces. This paper describes what are the principles of PYA, how PYA works, and why PYA is effective from the edutainment view.

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    ACE '04: Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Advances in computer entertainment technology
    September 2004
    368 pages
    ISBN:1581138822
    DOI:10.1145/1067343
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    1. classroom experiments
    2. edutainment for elementary school pupils
    3. learning hand characters
    4. visual interface

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