REXplorer

Ballagas, Rafael; Kratz, Sven; Borchers, Jan; Yu, Eugen; Walz, Steffen P.; Fuhr, Claudia O.; Hovestadt, Ludger; Tann, Martin

doi:10.1145/1240866.1240927

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“…Improving touristic experiences was also in the scope of HCI researchers in the past. The REXplorer mobile game designed by Ballagas et al [1] aimed at bringing "serious games" and location-based gaming to the domain of tourism, targeting a young audience. The game encourages sightseeing and interest in the history of the user's city by engaging the gamer with virtual spirits of the city's main historic figures, fighting the belief that "guided tours are boring", but, at the same time, not replacing the actual tours but raising the user's interest in those.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Autobus

Samsonov

Heller

Schöning

2017

Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Samsonov

Heller

Schöning

2017

Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia

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“…[11]), and to convey historical information (e.g. [22]). This approach would have to be used sparingly, however, in order not to lose the focus on imparting navigational skills.…”

Section: Future Workmentioning

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Mobile Augmented Reality as an Orientation Aid: A Scavenger Hunt Prototype

Rogers

Frommel

Breier

et al. 2015

2015 International Conference on Intelligent Environments

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Orientation in public environments is a critical skill for new arrivals, yet also one that is usually only learned gradually through trial and error. This paper suggests the use of pervasive augmented reality (AR) for the design of a serious game that teaches navigational skills in a public environment. Many AR scavenger hunt games confront players with new environments by default, however they rarely focus explicitly on teaching navigational skills. We propose a concept that utilises augmented reality techniques for increased immersion and motivation, while upholding the real-world sense of presence for an easy transfer of orientation skills to everyday life. For this purpose, we implemented a first prototypical serious game in the form of an AR scavenger hunt. A preliminary evaluation regarding its usability produced promising results. As such, the prototype constitutes a first proof of concept. In future iterations, it will be further developed as an adaptive AR serious game, and evaluated in respect to its efficacy in teaching orientation and navigation skills.

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“…A pervasive game whose goal is to learn the city history is REXplorer (Ballagas et al, 2007). It is performed in Regensburg, Germany; players are asked to investigate "paranormal activity" at some locations in the historical city centre and to guide their visit through the city.…”

Section: Pervasive Educational Gamesmentioning

confidence: 99%

An EUD Approach to the Design of Educational Games

Ardito

Lanzilotti

Huang³

2011

International Journal of Distance Education Technologies

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Distance education has experienced profound changes due to the introduction of new technologies, especially mobile devices of different types. It is necessary to define new learning techniques which are able to capture students 'attention and to engage them in their learning activities, reducing problems like distraction generated by the use ofthe device itself and/or by the surrounding environment. Game-based learning is a valuable possibility. The excursion-game has been recently proposed to support pupils learning history during visits to historical sites: its goal is to make the visit and the overall experience of cultural heritage more engaging. This paper describes the approach followed in the design ofthe system implementing the excursion-game: it takes into account an end-user development perspective in order to allow domain experts, i.e., experts in history and cultural heritage, contributing to design excursion-games for a wide set of historical sites.

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REXplorer

Cited by 76 publications

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