A Serious Game Design and Evaluation Approach to Enhance Cultural Heritage Understanding

Tsita, Christina; Satratzemi, Maya

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“…Digital games are usually used for entertainment and have the ability to engage players, thanks to the games' interactive nature [Bal07a]. Games that do not have entertainment as their primary purpose are called serious games, which, among other purposes, are used for education, the promotion of cultural heritage [Tsi19a], the improvement of well-being aspects [Why15a], and even cognitive training [Kat19a]. Serious games could Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page.…”

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The Iterative Development of an Online Multiplayer Escape Room Game for Improving Social Interaction through Edutainment

Najm¹,

Kyrlitsias²,

Michael-Grigoriou³

2022

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Digital Games are nowadays used for several purposes beyond entertainment. Such purposes include but are not limited to education, promoting cultural heritage, and improving well-being aspects. A rich body of literature presents experimental studies, investigating whether a serious game achieves its aim. However, most of such papers often omit to provide adequate information on the development process followed, game mechanisms and techniques used, making the reproducibility of the game as such, by other researchers, difficult. This results in a lack of knowledge transfer between researchers, who usually must develop applications under investigation by themselves when at the same time industrial gaming companies rarely publicize the technical insights of their work. This paper aims to contribute towards filling this knowledge gap within the scientific community, using as a case study an online, multiplayer, escape room game, which aims to improve social interaction through edutainment. The full process of its development with details for the various components that the game comprises are presented. We are expanding on the functionality of the game and the optimization of the 3D environment and the assets, among other aspects. Results of white and black-box testings taking place at the end of each development cycle showed that the integration of the various components described within the paper led to a robust game.

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The Iterative Development of an Online Multiplayer Escape Room Game for Improving Social Interaction through Edutainment

Najm¹,

Kyrlitsias²,

Michael-Grigoriou³

2022

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“…By adding and enhancing the educational perspective, a game is converted into a serious one (SG), which can simultaneously be an entertaining and an interpretive tool [5][6][7]. The better the design of such an application, the more effective it is [8,9]. Cultural Heritage and History is an inexhaustible source that provides interesting and meaningful stories for the creation of game scenarios for digital applications.…”

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EPANASTASIS-1821: Designing an Ιmmersive Virtual Museum for the Revival of Historical Events of the Greek Revolution

Georgia

Anastasovitis

Nikolopoulos

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Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection

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Recent technological advances have greatly affected the museum practice, introducing new and innovative technological solutions for the creation of more interactive, multisensory and experiential museum exhibitions. Virtual reality applications allow museums' visitors to be fully immersed in interactive adventures and consequently, many museums are focusing their digital strategy on that direction. Meanwhile, the use of serious games technology in museum environments set new perspectives in the educational and the entertaining impact of museums' experiences. This contribution describes the principles and the guidelines that defined the digital museological design process of the Virtual Museum EPANASTASIS-1821, the development of which is based on the technologies of virtual reality and serious games. The paper indicates how the use of virtual reality and serious games in exhibition design can strengthen designers' creativity, enhance the interpretation dynamic of the exhibition and the memorization potential and lastly, create memorable museum experiences.

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“…c) Post-test knowledge acquisition and immersion assessment: to measure the knowledge acquisition gain of the participants about the cultural information presented in each application, we used a post-test questionnaire, following common practice [Tsita and Satratzemi 2019]. To avoid memorization and bias effects, we performed the post-test questionnaire a few weeks after the experiment sessions, which is an adequate time period to mitigate such effects [Dunnewold 2014, Elley 1989].…”

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“…Besides immersion, the design of cultural-heritage applications aims to provide information on varying aspects related to cultural heritage, such as cultural awareness, historical reconstruction, and heritage awareness [Mortara et al 2014], through several activity types [Malegiannaki and Daradoumis 2017], and the use of varying technological contexts and techniques [Anderson et al 2010]. Like immersion, knowledge acquisition has been widely used to evaluate cultural-heritage experiences and interactive systems [D'Alba and Jones 2013, Mikalef et al 2013, Tsita and Satratzemi 2019.…”

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“…Knowledge acquisition. A popular tool for understanding individuals' comprehension within cultural-heritage contexts and for assessing the effectiveness of culturalheritage applications towards knowledge acquisition is the pre-test/post-test questionnaire [Tsita and Satratzemi 2019]. In the pre-test/post-test questionnaire-based approach, a questionnaire with questions that reflect the desired knowledge is filled by the study participants before and after performing the cultural-heritage activity.…”

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A cognition-centered personalization framework for cultural-heritage applications

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Ο όγκος των πληροφοριών που παρέχονται µέσω των ψηφιακών εφαρμογών πολιτισμικού περιεχόµενου είναι µεγάλος και συνεπώς η ανάγκη για παροχή εξατοµικευµένης εµπειρίας επίσκεψης είναι επιτακτική, ώστε οι παρεχόµενες πληροφορίες να παρουσιάζονται µε αποτελεσµατικό τρόπο προς κάθε επισκέπτη σύµφωνα µε τα ατοµικά του γνωστικά χαρακτηριστικά. Ωστόσο, οι προσπάθειες που έχουν πραγµατοποιηθεί ως σήµερα δεν δίνουν έµφαση στη διαφορετικότητα των ανθρώπων ως προς τα γνωστικά τους χαρακτηριστικά, τα οποία έχουν κυρίαρχο ρόλο στον τρόπο µε τον οποίο κάθε άτοµο αναζητά, συλλέγει, οργανώνει, επεξεργάζεται, και ανακτά πληροφορίες. Η διατριβή συνέβαλε στη διαπίστωση ότι οι επισκέπτες σε χώρους πολιτισµού που έχουν διαφορετικά γνωστικά χαρακτηριστικά διαφέρουν στον τρόπο µε τον οποίο αλληλεπιδρούν και επεξεργάζονται την πληροφορία όταν χρησιµοποιούν ψηφιακές εφαρµογές πολιτισµικού περιεχοµένου. Αυτές οι διαφορές αναδείχθηκαν µέσα από την ποσοτική και ποιοτική ανάλυση δεδοµένων και έχουν άµεση σχέση µε την εµπειρία επίσκεψης. Οι υπάρχουσες εφαρµογές, οι οποίες δεν λαµβάνουν υπόψη τους τη διαφορετικότητα των επισκεπτών ως προς τα γνωστικά χαρακτηριστικά, δηµιούργησαν ανισορροπίες σχετικά µε την εµπειρία επίσκεψης (κατανόηση πολιτισµικού περιεχοµένου, ποσοστό εµβύθισης). Προτάθηκε το πλαίσιο CogniCHef, το οποίο αφορά τη σχεδίαση εξατοµικευµένων εφαρµογών πολιτισµικού περιεχοµένου που λαµβάνει υπόψη τα ατοµικά γνωστικά χαρακτηριστικά του επισκέπτη µε στόχο να του προσφέρει µια βελτιωµένη εµπειρία επίσκεψης. Επίσης, η διατριβή έδειξε ότι η έγκυρη και έγκαιρη διάγνωση των γνωστικών χαρακτηριστικών είναι εφικτή σε πραγµατικό χρόνο κατά την αλληλεπίδραση του επισκέπτη µε εφαρµογές πολιτισµικού περιεχοµένου, µε τη χρήση αυτοµατοποιηµένων διαδικασιών, οι οποίες βασίζονται στη συλλογή και ανάλυση δεδοµένων οφθαλµικής ιχνηλάτησης (eye-tracking data). Επίσης, έδειξε ότι το πλαίσιο µπορεί να χρησιµοποιηθεί αποτελεσµατικά από σχεδιαστές ώστε να υλοποιήσουν εξατοµικευµένες εφαρµογές πολιτισµικού περιεχοµένου µε βάση τα γνωστικά χαρακτηριστικά των επισκεπτών. Τέλος, έδειξε ότι οι εξατοµικευµένες εφαρµογές πολιτισµικού περιεχοµένου βελτιώνουν τη συνολική εµπειρία του επισκέπτη.

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A Serious Game Design and Evaluation Approach to Enhance Cultural Heritage Understanding

Cited by 9 publications

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The Iterative Development of an Online Multiplayer Escape Room Game for Improving Social Interaction through Edutainment

The Iterative Development of an Online Multiplayer Escape Room Game for Improving Social Interaction through Edutainment

EPANASTASIS-1821: Designing an Ιmmersive Virtual Museum for the Revival of Historical Events of the Greek Revolution

A cognition-centered personalization framework for cultural-heritage applications

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