A Cultural Scavenger Hunt Serious Game Based on Audio Augmented Reality

Fakhour, Mohammed; Azough, Ahmed; Kaghat, Fatima-Zahra; Meknassi, Mohammed

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-36653-7_1

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“…Another means for speech-facilitated mechanics is a spoken quiz, in which players are asked a question and must input the correct answer to enter the next stage [34]. Verbal output from the system to the user seems to be so well accepted that the input of voice commands has been suggested to facilitate two-way verbal interaction [35].…”

Section: Speech In Ag Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Speech Puzzles (Spuzzles): Engaging the Reduced, Causal, and Semantic Listening Modes for Puzzle Design in Audio Games

Rovithis,

Papadopoulou,

Komianos

et al. 2024

Applied Sciences

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This paper proposes a novel approach to audio game design by introducing the concept of speech puzzles (spuzzles) to describe the utilisation of recorded voice for the creation of audio puzzles in ways that challenge players’ different listening modes. In the fields of audio games and audio-interactive applications, speech serves instructive, descriptive, narrative, and in some cases—in the form of hints or quizzes—gameplay purposes by addressing users through language. The suggested approach of spuzzles extends this potential by including, besides encoded meaning, the acoustic properties of sound, thus engaging the user’s causal and reduced listening modes in parallel with the semantic listening mode. An audio game consisting of four inherently different spuzzles was designed as proof of concept and tested by seven third-year students of Audiovisual Arts, who elaborated on their experience through a focus group semi-structured discussion. Despite their difficulty, the spuzzles were well accepted by most of the participants (5/7), whereas all participants agreed on their acoustic richness, need for concentration, and independence from pre-existing musical knowledge. Therefore, the authors suggest that the proposed design approach could serve as a paradigm for future research in the design of complex audio-based game mechanics.

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Section: Speech In Ag Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Speech Puzzles (Spuzzles): Engaging the Reduced, Causal, and Semantic Listening Modes for Puzzle Design in Audio Games

Rovithis,

Papadopoulou,

Komianos

et al. 2024

Applied Sciences

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“…Challenges include translating scientific concepts and practice for broader audiences, overcoming PAD, and sparking interest in the useful applications of botanical diversity [36,40,128,129]. There are, however, some wonderfully engaging developments, gamification, virtual reality, augmented reality, online digital, social media, and influencer interactions highlighting such innovative efforts, which we promote and support across those creative stakeholders and service ecosystems [37,[130][131][132].…”

Section: Enhancing Knowledge Exchangementioning

confidence: 99%

Botanic Garden Tourism, Social Value, Health, and Well-Being

Catahan,

Hopwood,

Suraweera

2024

JZBG

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Many botanic gardens are flourishing, and many others can learn from those leading the way; at the same time, all can form new allegiances informed by service research. We developed this paper to plant seeds for different stakeholders interested in putting a spotlight on botanic garden tourism opportunities. It is in response to a call to action by many stakeholders across the botanic garden sector for greater public engagement, to challenge plant awareness disparity, and to ensure the vitality and viability of the sector. Our commentary considers positive, transformative service making, marketing, management, and development. We recommend holistic, integrated services via ecosystemic thinking and collaborative partnerships across the sector and with non-traditional partnerships in the design of sustainable service ecosystems. It is envisaged that service research will spur on a more responsible, ethical, moral enterprise and sustainable botanic garden tourism with opportunities to drive positive, transformative change in meeting sustainable development goals for the good of plants, people, and planet.

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“…Focusing on education, two main aspects have been addressed: to improve the campus library knowledge (six works, e.g., [15]) and to familiarize students with a new academic environment and its resources (nine works, e.g., [29] and [30]). Papers not concerning the educational environment can also be found, e.g., [31] and [32]. The second most important goal addressed is to learn or promote the learning of a concrete concept or lesson (e.g., [33], [34], [35], and [36]), normally including questions related to these concepts in the SH tasks.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Proposal for an Immersive Scavenger Hunt-Based Serious Game in Higher Education

Pisabarro-Marron,

Vivaracho-Pascual,

Manso-Martinez

et al. 2024

IEEE Trans. Educ.

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A successful activity based on the scavenger hunt (SH) game is presented here. Although "serious game" in education now seems synonymous with videogame, the effectiveness of hands-on traditional games to increase student performance that, besides, they also like is defended and proved. The proposal is not focused, as is usual, on a single aspect of the educational environment, but on integrating behavioral and affective aspects into the learning process.Background: The literature analysis shows the predominance of serious games based on videogames in education, perhaps due to the lack of objective evidence concerning the influence of traditional game alternatives, such as SHs, on students' attitude/learning. This objective evidence is addressed with a proposal to motivate and integrate the students, making them more participative and thus positively affect their learning.Intended Outcomes: The activity increases motivation (behavioral outcome) and socialization (affective outcome), boosting learning (competence outcome); besides, students like the activity.Application Design: The necessity for a different instructional strategy came from the lack of commitment by the students in the first year of Computer Science Engineering. So a game (they are entertaining and powerful tools to increase motivation) that takes the students outside their normal working environment (classroom and laboratory) was designed. The study follows a cross sectional design with experimental and control sets randomly created, and sizes of 106 and 98 students, respectively.Findings: Highly satisfactory and statistically significant results were achieved: their attitude in class and personal study was more active (motivation), new relationships were created (socialization), they obtained better marks (learning) and enjoyed the activity (user experience), even though it was nondigital.

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A Cultural Scavenger Hunt Serious Game Based on Audio Augmented Reality

Cited by 9 publications

References 12 publications

Speech Puzzles (Spuzzles): Engaging the Reduced, Causal, and Semantic Listening Modes for Puzzle Design in Audio Games

Speech Puzzles (Spuzzles): Engaging the Reduced, Causal, and Semantic Listening Modes for Puzzle Design in Audio Games

Botanic Garden Tourism, Social Value, Health, and Well-Being

A Proposal for an Immersive Scavenger Hunt-Based Serious Game in Higher Education

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