Interactive Design of the Virtual Character-assisted Teaching System for Intangible Cultural Heritage Education for Children

ZHANG Ruochen; LI Meng; ZHA Siyu; LAI Yukou; WEN Shuting

doi:10.19554/j.cnki.1001-3563.2026.16.020

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Packaging Engineering ›› 2026, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (16) : 229-241. DOI: 10.19554/j.cnki.1001-3563.2026.16.020

Interactive Design of the Virtual Character-assisted Teaching System for Intangible Cultural Heritage Education for Children

ZHANG Ruochen¹, LI Meng^1,*, ZHA Siyu², LAI Yukou³, WEN Shuting¹

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To address the challenges of teacher shortages and obscure contents that lead to low student engagement in children's Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) education, the work aims to explore a virtual character-assisted teaching mode to enhance learning engagement and provide an exploratory path for ICH education inheritance among children. Based on the theoretical framework of learning engagement, virtual character-assisted teaching design strategies targeting behavioral, emotional, and cognitive dimensions were formulated. Furthermore, an interactive teaching system themed around Jingdezhen blue and white porcelain culture was developed, followed by a comparative experiment to preliminarily evaluate its usability and effectiveness. Experimental data indicated that the interactive system could enhance children's learning engagement in ICH education to a certain extent. Specifically, the teacher-driven virtual character instruction helped improve students' enthusiasm for ICH culture and their acquisition of related knowledge. These findings preliminarily confirm that the virtual character-assisted teaching mode, grounded in learning engagement strategies, can bridge the psychological distance between children and ICH culture, providing an exploratory design method to improve the superficiality in current ICH education.

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ICH education / virtual character / interactive design / learning engagement / ceramic ICH culture

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ZHANG Ruochen, LI Meng, ZHA Siyu, LAI Yukou, WEN Shuting. Interactive Design of the Virtual Character-assisted Teaching System for Intangible Cultural Heritage Education for Children[J]. Packaging Engineering. 2026, 47(16): 229-241 https://doi.org/10.19554/j.cnki.1001-3563.2026.16.020

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