Mobile games to foster the learning of history at archaeological sites

Delaney, Aidan

doi:10.1109/vlhcc.2007.54

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“…However, PDAs are not so popular among children in our target age group. Design effort can be optimized by considering homogeneous devices from the hosting organization, as in [1]. Such choice allows maximizing effectiveness and efficiency by fully exploiting known hardware and software characteristics.…”

Section: Related Work and Design For Wide Availabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

A museum mobile game for children using QR-codes

Ceipidor

Medaglia

Perrone

et al. 2009

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

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We present a mobile game to play a museum treasure hunt, addressed to students that are about 11-14. They have to search for the " materializations" of the solutions to a sequence of riddles, and to photograph them by personal camera phones. The letters of a secret word are orderly provided on right answers, spurring the interest for the exhibition through the cellular phone. The novelty is the use of QR-Codes, a kind of 2D codes, to identify the correct answers and to enjoy some other services. A preliminary field test in the Norsk Telemuseum gave very good results. Copyright 2009 ACM

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Section: Related Work and Design For Wide Availabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

A museum mobile game for children using QR-codes

Ceipidor

Medaglia

Perrone

et al. 2009

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

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“…In more recent examples the focus has moved to the experience itself, often through the use of more evocative stories, such as location sensitive historical plays or tapestries of personal stories connected to space to build up a cultural picture [18]. Educational tools such as 'Gaius' Day in Egnathia' [1] push the interactive elements of this kind of storytelling by giving participants goals. In the case of 'Gaius' Day' this is in the form of exploration targets that they must identify by collecting location-based clues.…”

Section: Location Aware Narrativementioning

confidence: 99%

Snow White Is Missing: An Interactive Locative Story for Dementia Patients

Hargood

Hicks

Charles

et al. 2017

E-Learning and Games

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Abstract. With the increasing prevalence of powerful mobile technology, interactive entertainment is also becoming increasingly mobile. This can also be said for a range of applications including those pertaining to mental and physical health which are also looking to take advantage of the increase in mobile technology to create digital interventions and other treatment based software for mobile devices that can benefit from the mobile deliver form. In this paper we propose a new form of serious game in this vein: therapeutic locative interactive fiction. These are interactive story experiences, read while on the move, that respond to the readers environment and location context, and have therapeutic value. The locative nature of these stories enables therapeutic activities connected with out door spaces, and allows for content to enrich users, the readers of locational context. We present a demonstration of this concept through our own therapeutic locative interactive narrative: Snow White is Missing, and detail both its design from an interactive narrative and therapeutic activity perspectives.

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“…These include interactive educational tools such as Gaius' Day in Egnathia [2] and 'edutainment' systems such as Geist [18].…”

Section: Educational Toolsmentioning

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Patterns of Sculptural Hypertext in Location Based Narratives

Hargood

Hunt

Weal

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media

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Location based narratives are an emerging form of digital storytelling that use location technologies to trigger content on smart devices according to a user's location. In previous work on the Canyons, Deltas and Plains (CDP) model we argued that they are best considered as a form of sculptural hypertext, but sculptural hypertext is a relatively unexplored medium with few examples, and limited critical theory. This means that there is little guidance for authors on what is possible with the medium, and no common authoring tools, both of which impede adoption and experimentation. In this paper we describe our work to tackle this problem by working with creative writing students to create 40 location based sculptural hypertexts using an approach similar to paperprototyping, and then analysing these for common patterns (structures of nodes, rules, and conditions used for a poetic purpose). We present seven key patterns: Parallel Threads, Gating, Concurrent Nodes, Alternative Nodes, Foldbacks, Phasing, and Unlocking. In doing so we see some overlap with the patterns identified in traditional (calligraphic) hypertext, but in many cases these patterns are particularly suited to sculptural hypertext, and hint at a different poetics for the form. Our findings refine our original CDP model, but also present a starting point for educating writers on how to approach sculptural stories, and form a foundation for future location-based authoring tools.

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Mobile games to foster the learning of history at archaeological sites

Cited by 19 publications

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A museum mobile game for children using QR-codes

A museum mobile game for children using QR-codes

Snow White Is Missing: An Interactive Locative Story for Dementia Patients

Patterns of Sculptural Hypertext in Location Based Narratives

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