Unveiling California History Through Serious Games: Fort Ross Virtual Warehouse

Lercari, Nicola; Mortara, Michela; Forte, Maurizio

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-12157-4_19

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“…For example, within museums, the use of game environments are a playful tool for narrative storytelling [59] or for personal exhibition creation [18] and memory making [16]. Outdoor geolocated games foster context-aware learning [47,61] and knowledge acquisition about historical sites [5] and events [38]. Games are also provided as a tool for linear tours that make use of storytelling [40] and for crowdsourcing 3D data for the reconstruction of historical sites using treasure hunts [22].…”

Section: Related Work 21 Location-based Games Cultural Heritage Anmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Enthusiast, the Interested, the Sceptic, and the Cynic

Jones

Theodosis

Lykourentzou

2019

J. Comput. Cult. Herit.

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We discuss the user study of a mobile cultural heritage game designed to stimulate reflection about a city's history. Aided by location-aware technology, the game fosters the serendipitous discovery of points of interest, historical images and stories, whilst players wander the city. This exploration differs from the typical precalculated path recommendations used by other location-based applications. It triggers reflection about the city's past that is as unique as its visitors. Ours is one of the first studies to attempt an understanding of the effects of serendipitous urban discovery and historic reflection-triggering technologies on user experience. We combined field trials with controlled experiments, analysing perceptions of the experience and value using responses expressed in open-ended questionnaire items. Using thematic coding and sentiment analysis, we observed types of emotional responses, indicating four potential profiles of their likelihood towards future technology adoption. Enthusiastic and Interested users appreciated the freedom of movement choice that created an autonomous experience that fostered a sense of personal accomplishment. The interface interactions of the game, designed to stimulate reflection, supported a feeling of connectedness to others. In contrast, Cynical and Sceptical users were less tolerant of perceived technological issues, requiring more perfection in functionality and design. These users are less likely to be the early adopters of serendipitous location-based apps. The game was developed as part of a large cultural informatics project but, unlike typical evaluations, we conducted this study midway through the project and not at its end. This approach (1) gave the team the possibility to take stock, pause, and reflect and (2) provided insight on future design improvements for increasing the perceived value of serendipitous urban discovery applications. Our results contribute towards a grounded understanding of user experience and help progress the development of cultural heritage applications that incorporate elements of reflection and/or place-based exploration into their functionalities. CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in ubiquitous and mobile computing;

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Section: Related Work 21 Location-based Games Cultural Heritage Anmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Enthusiast, the Interested, the Sceptic, and the Cynic

Jones

Theodosis

Lykourentzou

2019

J. Comput. Cult. Herit.

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“…Connections were made with NMCHC. In 2015, a UCM faculty of World Heritage and Interdisciplinary Humanities (IH) was introduced to JMGC due to his expertise in digital heritage and historical preservation research both in California (Lercari, Forte, & Onsurez, 2013;Lercari, Mortara, & Forte, 2014) and Turkey (Lercari, 2017(Lercari, , 2018Lercari, Shiferaw, Forte, & Kopper, 2017). This initial contact led to JMGC collaborating with UCM to develop the John Muir Geotourism App project (discussed below) focusing on bringing more visitors through State Route 132 and Coulterville to Yosemite.…”

Section: Historic Coulterville Digital Preservationmentioning

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California Gold Country’s Digital Heritage: Innovations in Community Engaged Research and Training

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Arksey

Caskey

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and faculty and graduate students of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Program at UC Merced. Dictated by the needs and goals of the community members of the gold rush town of Coulterville, in the Sierra Foothills of California, who are invested in the preservation of their cultural heritage, the project focused on digital historic preservation in four areas of focus: i) the archives and photographs at the Northern Mariposa County History Center, ii) the Coulterville cemeteries, iii) oral histories of Coulterville, and iv) the digital documentation of Coulterville Main Street Historic District. Combined, these four areas of focus presented a breadth of subject matter through which to test various digital preservation methods in a real-world scenario as well as provided both the students and the community members the opportunity to study subjects in greater depth that were of mutual interest. The project provides an example of the potential for community-university research collaborations to benefit local communities while also providing training and networking opportunities for students, and new scholarship case studies for the scholars.

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“…The proposed examples underlined current trends related to TLS: laser-based metric survey techniques are increasingly integrated with other survey methods such as Airborne LiDAR, Image-based Modeling, UAS, and commodity sensors, with the goal to produce data fusion-based documentation able to provide data redundancy and reliability of the final deliverables. These new hybrid forms of data capture define multimodal workflows for heritage documentation that had already proved viable in relation to digital documentation of archaeological heritage and built environments (Forte et al 2012;Campana et al 2013) and digital data curation in museums and historic parks Lercari et al 2014) (Figure 10). The ultimate aim of this chapter was to ponder the significance of Terrestrial Laser Scanning and respond to the following question: does TLS still matter in the Age of Sensing?…”

Section: Case Studymentioning

confidence: 99%