A simulated learning environment of history games for enhancing players’ cultural awareness

Abstract

This research attempted to create the historical context of Southern Taiwan in the late nineteenth century based on the martial art novel "Xiao-Mao" (Pussy) by designing a role-play digital game "Taiwan Epic Game" about the war time; in which, Taiwanese history, geography, and culture are presented in an innovative way with virtual scenarios. Questionnaire surveys were conducted to investigate the effects of the digital game. The simulationist immersion premises were chosen to be the primary concern, with which the designers should pursue the supreme creation of situation, character, setting, and system. The results showed that the game can effectively enhance players' cognitive growth, as well as cultural awareness in terms of the sense of existence of the environment, local culture, folk arts, faith and festivals, and architectural characteristics. It can be concluded that the three-dimensional simulated learning environment created in the digital game can successfully merge "reality" and "virtuality."

Empirical Evaluations of Interactive Systems in Cultural Heritage

“…the introduced system and an alternative), like the work of Jylhä et al (2015) who present a comparative field study of their proposed multimodal, wearable system for alerting the user of nearby recommended POIs to a visual mobile application. Finally, the study of Shih et al (2015) investigated cultural awareness of students with pre-and post-tests (questionnaires). DISCUSSION, CRITIQUE AND OUTLOOK On the interactive systems examined, their purpose, technology and content Most systems identified for this review were games or applications that promoted exploration of physical or virtual places.…”

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Applying constrained virtual environments to serious games for heritage

“…The focus of this paper is on serious games for heritage (SGsH) [12], [13], of which many examples can be found throughout the literature, for both design [14]- [18] and evaluation [19], [20]. Many of these serious games aim to recreate cultural or historical settings of interest to be experienced by the player, whether it be a faraway cultural locale [15], [21], or a historical period or event now long past [22]- [25]. The prospect of being able to see and understand the past through our ancestors' eyes is an undeniably attractive one and likely draws many users to such learning games.…”

Exploring Cultural Heritage Using Augmented Reality Through Google’s Project Tango and ARCore

“…Among the several solutions proposed, it is found different kinds of games like: educational games, e.g. the role-play digital game named "Taiwan Epic Game" where it was intended to create the historical context of Southern Taiwan in the late nineteenth century [9]; or location-based games, e.g. "Gossip at Palace," a location-based mobile game developed for an Italian historical residence to communicate its 18th-century history to teenagers [10].…”