Multimodal Interfaces for Educational Virtual Environments

Christopoulos, Dimitrios; Gaitatzes, Athanasios

doi:10.1109/pci.2009.8

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“…The analysis of a number of digital-based games related to cultural heritage [7] suggests that historical SGs favor a realistic simulation of the past. Our findings verify the importance of realism in digital simulation as many historical SGs have been developed as 3D realistic environments [9][10][11][12][13]. Some games demonstrate that 3D sceneries are able to support situated cognition in a realistic/meaningful environment whether players can interact with cultural objects in their actual context [14][15][16].…”

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confidence: 71%

Unveiling California History Through Serious Games: Fort Ross Virtual Warehouse

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Forte

2014

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Between 1812 and 1841, Fort Ross was a Russian fur trading outpost and multi-cultural colony located in the Northern California coast. Current Fort Ross is a popular California State Historic Park visited every year by over 100,000 visitors from all over the world. In March 2011, California State Parks and the University of California Merced started the Fort Ross Virtual Warehouse project-a digital scholarship initiative aimed to enhance a pilot serious game on Fort Ross developed by California State Parks Staff in the early 2000s-with the goal to explore novel ways for archiving, disseminating, and teaching cultural and historical information. After twenty-four months of development, Fort Ross Virtual Warehouse serious game is ready to be tested in a user study with elementary school students. This paper exposes key features, design solutions and game mechanics of Fort Ross Virtual Warehouse along with preliminary assessments of the game performed as an expert evaluation by the leader of the Special Interest Group on

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Section: Related Worksupporting

confidence: 71%

Unveiling California History Through Serious Games: Fort Ross Virtual Warehouse

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Forte

2014

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…Using VR for representation of historical events was also attempted in [14] representing the siege of Syracuse by the Romans in 212 B.C. Our aim on this project was to cross-fertilize edutainment VR, core game technologies and novel techniques derived from the entertainment industry providing an educational experience that should put visitors in touch with what is fundamentally engaging about the historical battle of Thermopylae, help them build a scaffolding of the historical core concepts and motivate them to go deeper into the subject themselves.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The Software Design plays an equally distinct and important role in the process. The in-house developed Enhanced Visualization System (EVS) was used to create the high-resolution stereoscopic output [14] [17] [18]. EVS was designed specifically for creating and running immersive Virtual Reality applications in a variety of hardware configurations.…”

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confidence: 99%

Using Virtual Environments to Tell the Story: "The Battle of Thermopylae"

Christopoulos

Mavridis

Andreadis

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2011 Third International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications

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Virtual environments have been valued as being extremely motivating for learners and therefore are employed as an innovative, more accessible framework to deliver education and entertainment to the public. Recent advances in creating videogame applications imbedded with effective learning principles, along with the evolution of human computer interfaces performed within the entertainment industry, suggests that a combination of successful practices in these areas could potentially transform virtual environments to a significant educational tool that could facilitate the learning process. This paper describes a virtual reality exhibit implemented for the museum of Thermopylae located at the site of the original battle, near the city of Lamia in Greece. We utilized storytelling techniques and principles of modern videogames to disseminate historical knowledge about the battle and the associated legends. After describing the hardware and software components comprising this installation we elaborate over the educational techniques designed to reinforce the strength of virtual reality technology as a mean of designing educational experiences in the context of historical events.

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“…Since 1970 until now, more than 100 serious games have been designed and among these only a small part are within Cultural Heritage (Critelli et al, 2012;Francis, 2006;Janarthanan, 2012;Michaud, 2015). Very interesting examples of this kind are The Battle of Thermopylae (Christopoulos et al, 2011;Laamarti et al, 2014) aiming to deliver the historical context and importance of the battle, the warfare of the opponents, their cultural differences and the strategic choices, and The Siege of Syracuse (Christopoulos et al, 2009) recreating the battlefield of the siege by the romans in 212 BC. Others are The ancient Olympia (Gaitatzes et al, 2004;Syufagi et al, 2013); the Priory Herbert Undercroft, are construction of the Benedictine monastery in Coventry, dissolved by Henry VIII (Doulamis et al, 2011); Revolution (Francis, 2006), a role-playing game in the town of colonial Williamsburg during the American Revolution; The Playing History game series; George Washington's treasures and Rome in Danger.…”

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A Gaming Approach for Cultural Heritage Knowledge and Dissemination

Paola¹,

Inzerillo²,

Alognaa³

2019

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> In these last years, video games have become one of the most popular entertainment for children/teenagers/adults thanks to their appealing and seductive features and, in this context, the Serious Games (SG) have become an important research field. The most popular SGs in Cultural Heritage (CH) used the historical building like scenario where the game is playing. In this paper we show the procedure to achieve a CH video game where the Cultural Heritage is the main actor and not the scenario of the game. Furthermore, the game is not a SG but an Action-Adventure Game (AAG) or Survival Game (SuG), in a largest heading it can be classified as Entertainment Games (EGs). The novelty of this study is not only in the original application of the CH within the AAG sector but also consists of the experimentation of the Virtual Reality (VR) algorithm and of the application of Augmented Reality (AR) within the VR scenario used in the form of an avatar. Furthermore, in this paper we overcome the technical problems due to the different size of the environment and the work art.</p>

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Multimodal Interfaces for Educational Virtual Environments

Cited by 19 publications

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Unveiling California History Through Serious Games: Fort Ross Virtual Warehouse

Unveiling California History Through Serious Games: Fort Ross Virtual Warehouse

Using Virtual Environments to Tell the Story: "The Battle of Thermopylae"

A Gaming Approach for Cultural Heritage Knowledge and Dissemination

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