Serious Games for Cultural Applications

Doulamis, Anastasios; Liarokapis, Fotis; Petridis, Panagiotis; Miaoulis, Georgios

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-22907-7_6

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“…A recent study on cultural heritage serious game (CHSG) confirmed that reconstructing simulated historical sites, structures, and scenes by using 3D technology is both feasible and crucial to this form of gaming [Doulamis 2012]. The reconstruction of tangible cultural assets, such as architecture, sculpture, and handicrafts, can be achieved using digitization and 2D or 3D modeling [Foni et al 2010;Aliaga et al 2011].…”

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confidence: 98%

“…The majority of recent empirical studies on serious games have focused on single categories, such as visualization technologies or interactive models [Doulamis et al 2012;Huizenga et al 2009]. However, the scope of research conducted to develop serious games intended for the recognition and promotion of cultural heritage must be diverse and complex; hence a CHSG creation framework instead.…”

Section: Research Motivationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…If the goal is to realistically represent indigenous historical materials in a comprehensive manner, presenting indigenous tribal scenes and buildings a 3D interactive gaming platform assists students in grasping the spatiality of history [Doulamis 2012]. Regarding game scripts, intangible cultural materials, such as tribal beliefs, customs, and ceremonies, should be simultaneously integrated as game objectives and mission levels, and presented in a manner that cannot be achieved using traditional educational approaches.…”

Section: Research Motivationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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An annales school-based serious game creation framework for taiwanese indigenous cultural heritage

Huang

2013

J. Comput. Cult. Herit.

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This study utilizes the characteristics of the Annales School, including their emphasis on total history and space and time integration, their focus on the economic world, and their use of structural analysis to develop a creation framework for a serious video game related to the cultural and life history of Taiwan's indigenous people. Game development comprised the tiers of data, logic, and presentation. During the data tier, we used taxonomy to extract the cultural components of Taiwan's Atayal tribe. During the logic tier, we employed an analysis of cultural characteristics and comparisons of historical education goals to confirm the game's framework and storytelling engine, selecting a construction management simulation game genre to present tribal life and economic operations. Finally, in the presentation tier, we converted cultural components into elements in the game's user interface.The game evaluation results showed that "Papakwaqa" (our serious game) had positive benefits for enhancing schoolchildren's learning motivation and performance regarding indigenous life and history. Our research verified that integrating the crossdisciplinary methods of anthropologists, history teachers, tribal elders, and game designers to establish instructional goals and design foci for game development and to create a cultural heritage serious game-creation framework warrants further study and effort.

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Section: Background and Related Workmentioning

confidence: 98%

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confidence: 99%

Section: Research Motivationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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An annales school-based serious game creation framework for taiwanese indigenous cultural heritage

Huang

2013

J. Comput. Cult. Herit.

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“…The Ancient Olympic Games is the subject of a number of gaming applications associated with Olympic Games in Ancient Greece (Gaitatzes et al 2004) and was developed by the Foundation of the Hellenic World. Priory Undercrofts game aims to solve a treasure hunt scenario by collecting medieval objects that used to be located in and around of the object which are the remains of the Coventry's original Benedictine monastery, demolished by Henry VIII (Doulamis et al 2012). Another game is the Battle of Thermopylae in which storytelling techniques and principles of modern videogames are utilized to disseminate historical knowledge about the battle and the associated legends (Christopoulos et al 2011).…”

Section: Serious Games In Cultural Heritagementioning

confidence: 99%

Exploiting Textured 3D Models for Developing Serious Games

Kontogianni

Georgopoulos

2015

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

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ABSTRACT:Digital technologies have affected significantly many fields of computer graphics such as Games and especially the field of the Serious Games. These games are usually used for educational proposes in many fields such as Health Care, Military applications, Education, Government etc. Especially Digital Cultural Heritage is a scientific area that Serious Games are applied and lately many applications appear in the related literature. Realistic 3D textured models which have been produced using different photogrammetric methods could be a useful tool for the creation of Serious Game applications in order to make the final result more realistic and close to the reality. The basic goal of this paper is how 3D textured models which are produced by photogrammetric methods can be useful for developing a more realistic environment of a Serious Game. The application of this project aims at the creation of an educational game for the Ancient Agora of Athens. The 3D models used vary not only as far as their production methods (i.e. Time of Flight laser scanner, Structure from Motion, Virtual historical reconstruction etc.) is concerned, but also as far as their era as some of them illustrated according to their existing situation and some others according to how these monuments looked like in the past. The Unity 3D ® game developing environment was used for creating this application, in which all these models were inserted in the same file format. For the application two diachronic virtual tours of the Athenian Agora were produced. The first one illustrates the Agora as it is today and the second one at the 2 nd century A.D. Finally the future perspective for the evolution of this game is presented which includes the addition of some questions that the user will be able to answer. Finally an evaluation is scheduled to be performed at the end of the project.

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“…Others include a treasure hunt for medieval objects in the Priory Undercrofts game [4], the Battle of Thermopylae [5], the THIATRO [6], the Via Appia application [7], the ICURA for intangible cultural heritage [8], the PLAYHIST experiment [9], the Fort Ross Virtual Warehouse Serious Game [10]. Finally the i-Treasures includes four novel game-like educational applications for traditional singing, for the popular Greek Tsamiko dance, for the art of making pottery and for the contemporary music composition [11].…”

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confidence: 99%

Developing and Exploiting 3D Textured Models for a Serious Game Application

Kontogianni

Koutsaftis

Skamantzari

et al. 2016

2016 8th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-GAMES)

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In the field of Cultural Heritage there are many Serious Games applications. 3D models of cultural heritage objects created with 3D modelling methods preserving realism and detail can be a very useful tool for Serious Games if exploited correctly and suitably. In this paper a composite SG application is developed and presented using such realistic 3D models produced by Geomatics techniques. The construction of these 3D models is presented along with the application, which consists of three different options for the user: A virtual navigation to the site with some questions, a visit to the museum of a monument and an educational quiz game concerning the architectural reconstruction of this monument.

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Serious Games for Cultural Applications

Cited by 26 publications

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An annales school-based serious game creation framework for taiwanese indigenous cultural heritage

An annales school-based serious game creation framework for taiwanese indigenous cultural heritage

Exploiting Textured 3D Models for Developing Serious Games

Developing and Exploiting 3D Textured Models for a Serious Game Application

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