Using gamification to discover cultural heritage locations from geo-tagged photos

Bujari, Armir; Ciman, Matteo; Gaggi, Ombretta; Palazzi, Claudio E.

doi:10.1007/s00779-016-0989-6

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“…User engagement constitutes a fundamental aim for applications presenting CH information. Gamification is an approach towards increasing entertainment and user motivation [21]. MR environments are integrated into CH institutions, associating virtual artifacts with physical exhibits.…”

Section: Applications and Interaction In Cultural Heritage Environmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enhancing accessibility in cultural heritage environments: considerations for social computing

Kosmas

Galanakis

Constantinou

et al. 2019

Univ Access Inf Soc

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Current technological advancements offer many ways of enhancing disabled peoples' access to Cultural Heritage environments. A new generation of Social Computing technologies and systems is changing the way in which we access Cultural Heritage, facilitating the inclusion of socially isolated groups of people. Under this perspective, this paper aims to explore the potential impact of Social Computing systems to enhance people' access to Cultural Heritage, particularly focusing on deaf and disabled users. By reviewing the current literature on Social Computing and Cultural Heritage, the paper first summarizes the related applications and appropriate key technologies; second, it provides examples of innovative approaches to the enhancement of user-engagement and interaction through social computing. Moreover, the paper highlights arising issues of privacy, as well as ethical considerations, and presents design principles for ensuring privacy. The study concludes by discussing challenges for inclusive Social Computing applications in the context of Cultural Heritage and pointing out areas where future research is needed. AbstractCurrent technological advancements offer many ways of enhancing disabled peoples' access to Cultural Heritage environments. A new generation of Social Computing technologies and systems is changing the way in which we access Cultural Heritage, facilitating the inclusion of socially isolated groups of people. Under this perspective, this paper aims to explore the potential impact of Social Computing systems to enhance people' access to Cultural Heritage, particularly focusing on deaf and disabled users. By reviewing the current literature on Social Computing and Cultural Heritage, the paper first summarizes the related applications and appropriate key technologies; second, it provides examples of innovative approaches to the enhancement of user-engagement and interaction through social computing. Moreover, the paper highlights arising issues of privacy, as well as ethical considerations, and presents design principles for ensuring privacy. The study concludes by discussing challenges for inclusive Social Computing applications in the context of Cultural Heritage and pointing out areas where future research is needed.[1]. Based on the literature, SC can be interactive and collaborative as it facilitates communication between people. SC environments allow people to interact in many different ways. Examples of SC technologies include social media sites and networks, e-mail, discussion forums, blogs, wikis, instant messaging, games, and open-source development.More recently, the rise of SC tools has influenced information systems and applications and strongly received researchers' attention with a particular interest to its social implications for helping people access Cultural Heritage environments [2]. Indeed, social technologies, and especially social media applications, affect both access to and the character of the cultural activity. Cultural Heritage (CH) constitutes an interdisciplinary area...

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Section: Applications and Interaction In Cultural Heritage Environmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enhancing accessibility in cultural heritage environments: considerations for social computing

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Galanakis

Constantinou

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Univ Access Inf Soc

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“…3. Usage frequency Among all the institutions, participants marked that the application should not force the users, even if some notifications or services could be exploited as motivation (eventually by means of game-like elements [21,22]). It is important to let the user free to decide and modify the level of notification.…”

Section: Phase Two: Focus Groupsmentioning

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Collaborative design of software applications: the role of users

Mirri

Roccetti

Salomoni

2018

Hum. Cent. Comput. Inf. Sci.

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Drawing on a 1-year application design, implementation and evaluation experience, this paper examines how engaging users in the early design phases of a software application is tightly bound to the success of that application in use. Through the comparison between two different approaches to collaborative application design (namely, user-centered vs participatory), we reveal how sensitivity to the role that users may play during that collaborative practice rebounds to a good level of user satisfaction during the evaluation process. Our paper also contributes to conversations and reflections on the differences between those two design approaches, while providing evidences that the participatory approach may better sensitize designers to issues of users' satisfaction. We finally offer our study as a resource and a methodology for recognizing and understanding the role of active users during a process of development of a software application.

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“…Applications of AR in the medical context can be exploited to enhance a doctor's view of a patient, pre-treatment planning, non-invasive surgery, and remote operations. [25][26][27] Furthermore, investigators can use digital notes superimposed on archaeological sites or paintings to attach information to the object of study in a non-invasive way and make it available to other researchers to facilitate research in collaboration. This mirrored patient could enable the doctor to perform precise operations without the need for large incisions and wherever the doctor(s) and the patients are located with respect to each other.…”

Section: Interactive Networked Cooperative Ar Applicationsmentioning

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Optimal configuration of active and backup servers for augmented reality cooperative games

Bujari

Giovanni

Palazzi

2018

Concurrency and Computation

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Interactive applications as online games and mobile devices have grown in popularity. From their combination, new and interesting cooperative services could be generated. For instance, gamers endowed with Augmented Reality (AR) visors, connected as wireless nodes in an ad-hoc network, can interact with each other while immersed in the game. To enable this vision, we discuss here a hybrid architecture enabling game play in ad-hoc mode instead of the traditional client-server setting. In our architecture, one of the player nodes also acts as the server of the game, whereas other backup server nodes are ready to become active servers in case of network disconnection, ie, due to low energy level of the currently active server. This allows to have a longer gaming session before a disconnection occurs due to energy exhaustion. In this context, the server election strategy with the aim of maximizing network lifetime is not so straightforward. To this end, we have analyzed this issue through a Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) model considering static network topologies and both numerical and simulation-based analysis shows that the backup servers solution fulfills its design objective. Contemplating for mobility, we present a simulation study employing actual packet routing protocols and discuss the tradeoffs that emerge. KEYWORDSbackup server, MANET, mixed integer linear programming, online game INTRODUCTIONIn recent years, interactive applications such as online games and mobile devices have become more and more popular, generating a huge market.This success is also accompanied by tough technical challenges that have attracted the interest of researchers and practitioners all around the world.Indeed, although online games require only a little amount of bandwidth, their performance is subject to strict per-packet delay requirements and to scalability issues that can be solved only through specific solutions and architectures. 1-3The combination with wireless-enabled mobile devices fosters new gaming scenarios. For instance, think of a multiplayer game based on the user position and proximity, ie, a game that is played outside, on the street, or in courtyards, or close to cultural heritage sites. 4 Players may gather around a certain spot and start a gaming session on their mobile devices, exploiting the device features (eg, connectivity, GPS, gyroscope, etc), rendering the game play more attractive. These applications may be coupled with Augmented Reality (AR), or even with Virtual Reality (VR), through helmets and wireless connectivity so as to enable players to interact with the AR/VR world and with each other (eg, see Figure 1). [5][6][7][8] In these envisioned scenarios, players will be engaged in an outdoor, connectivity-, and proximity-based game. However, in order to enable this scenario, we have to address at least three main issues. First, the main model for networked games is client-server, with the client run by the player's PC and the server located remotely in the Internet. 9-11 Clearly, we could ha...

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Using gamification to discover cultural heritage locations from geo-tagged photos

Cited by 70 publications

References 42 publications

Enhancing accessibility in cultural heritage environments: considerations for social computing

Enhancing accessibility in cultural heritage environments: considerations for social computing

Collaborative design of software applications: the role of users

Optimal configuration of active and backup servers for augmented reality cooperative games

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