Digital narrative conventions in heritage trail mobile apps

Basaraba, Nicole; Conlan, Owen; Edmond, Jennifer; Arnds, Peter

doi:10.1080/13614568.2019.1642963

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“…We designed a fully immersive VRE using Unity game engine 1 and Oculus software development kit (SDK) 2 . A high-performance Dell OptiPlex 7060 was used for the development of VR.…”

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“…Inside the VRE, visual cues to demonstrate flooding and audio cues (sirens) to demonstrate a sense of urgency were implemented. We followed game design guidelines while designing the evacuation training VRE [2,26].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We want to extend these existing works and see how serious games (where the main focus is on learning outcomes and training) with a narrative influence VRE. Implying serious storytelling in training based VR simulations and investigating its effects on mediated presence and players' behavioral experiences is an exciting realm to investigate [2]. Comprehensive evaluation methodologies are required to model these factors by integrating them into immersive VRE [12].…”

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Serious Storytelling in Virtual Reality

Irshad

Perkis

2020

Extended Abstracts of the 2020 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

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Virtual Reality (VR) can administer a narrative rich, high-fidelity environment that provides a fully immersive and interactive experience for use in serious games. VR serious games are increasingly used in training and evacuation preparedness for natural hazards. Understanding players' behavior is critical to improving the experience of these VR serious games. Incorporating narrative in SG has proven to make them more effective; however, its influence on mediated presence and players' behavioral response is not studied extensively. This preliminary study investigates digital narratives' role on mediated presence, cognitive behavior, and engagement in an evacuation training VR serious game. Participants (N=32) were exposed to virtual flooding in a virtual environment designed for evacuation training with and without a serious storytelling context. Quantitative analysis of players' experience revealed that VR implemented with digital narrative improved the sense of mediated presence and players' behavioral response.

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“…We designed a fully immersive VRE using Unity game engine 1 and Oculus software development kit (SDK) 2 . A high-performance Dell OptiPlex 7060 was used for the development of VR.…”

Section: Methods 21 System Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Methods 21 System Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Related Workmentioning

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Serious Storytelling in Virtual Reality

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2020

Extended Abstracts of the 2020 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

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“…These places of memory (i.e. memory institutions) are increasingly developing websites ('digital spaces'), using digital installations within buildings like museums ('digital places'), and location-based mobile applications with narratives about significant places of memory along heritage trails (Basaraba et al, 2019). These emerging digital spaces and places are attracting public visitors/tourists.…”

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The emergence of creative and digital place-making: A scoping review across disciplines

Basaraba

2021

New Media & Society

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The concept of ‘place-making’ emerged in media studies in 2015, but to date, there has been little theoretical engagement with the term. The primary research question this scoping review answers is how is ‘place-making’ defined across disciplines and which methodologies have been applied to creative and digital projects? A bibliometric analysis of 1974 publications from Web of Science (published in the last 30 years) were analysed to (1) define ‘place-making’ across disciplines, (2) model common themes in scholarship, (3) identify the methodologies used and (4) understand the impacts on citizens. The results show that ‘place-making’ first appeared in geography/urban studies in 1960s, was then adopted as ‘creative placemaking’ in the creative industries, and in the past 5 years (since 2015), it has appeared as ‘digital placemaking’ in media studies. It also highlighted areas (i.e. gaps) for future research into ‘creative placemaking’ and ‘digital place-making’ practices for cultural heritage sites.

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“…For example, Musica Romana, intended for use by tourists, is a website for mobile phones that allows users to experience classical music associated with it and the music playable on-location at specific churches located in Rome, Italy (Fagerjord, 2017). A large number of mobile apps have also been created for heritage trails to promote and engage tourists/visitors using gamification (Basaraba, et al, 2019). Finally, examples of cultural heritage narratives that fall within the iDoc genre thematically tend to focus on specific locations, such as a nation, historic area or city.…”

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A bottom-up method for remixing narratives for virtual heritage experiences

Basaraba

2021

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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Considering the impacts COVID-19 has had on travel and many economies, developing virtual experiences that are well-received by different publics has become even more prominent. This paper shows how a multimodal discourse analysis can be used to as a bottom-up approach to identifying narrative themes that can be used in virtual experiences for cultural heritage sites. A case study on 11 UNESCO World Heritage Australian Convict Sites shows how diverse sources of user-generated content, tourism marketing materials and historical information can be analysed and then remixed into a virtual tour of the sites in the form of an interactive web documentary (iDoc). Although this case study involved a total of seven narrative development phases, this paper focuses on two phases, namely how the user model and content model were determined. These models were later used to develop the resulting iDoc prototype. The user model focused on the prospective audience of cultural heritage tourists, and a content model of narrative themes for the iDoc was developed through a multimodal discourse analysis. This bottom-up approach of analysing existing cultural data allows for the discovery of the prospective audiences’ interests as well as narrative themes that can be included in virtual heritage experiences. It also provides a new creative methodology that can prevent issues that may arise with top-down narratives that focus too heavily on one institutional perspective or national narrative and lack direct engagement with or understanding of today’s publics.

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Digital narrative conventions in heritage trail mobile apps

Cited by 17 publications

References 16 publications

Serious Storytelling in Virtual Reality

Serious Storytelling in Virtual Reality

The emergence of creative and digital place-making: A scoping review across disciplines

A bottom-up method for remixing narratives for virtual heritage experiences

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