Simulating culture: An experiment using a multi-user virtual environment

Fishwick,; Henderson,; Fresh,; Futterknecht,; Hamilton,

doi:10.1109/wsc.2008.4736141

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“…A study showed that users who played the game were better able to identify fraudulent web sites compared to those, who read tutorials about phishing. Concerning cultural heritage and tourism there are two projects we want to mention here: Travel in Europe [4] and Second China [9], [14]. Travel in Europe (TiE) aims at implementing an innovative means to promote and divulge cultural heritage.…”

Section: A Educational Gamesmentioning

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“…In this paper we focus on the opportunities that Serious Games provide in the field of cultural awareness, cultural heritage and tourism. The term culture is usually associated with a life-world as well as a set of behavioral rules, forms of thinking and norms that emerge from human group interaction [9]. Cross cultural interaction is an important matter that requires the detailed understanding of the target culture.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Design and evaluation of a Serious Game for immersive cultural training

Froschauer¹,

Seidel²,

Gärtner³

et al. 2010

2010 16th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia

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3D Virtual Worlds have the potential to expand the knowledge of a foreign culture by presenting the information in a visual context. In this paper we describe the design and evaluation of ICURA, a Serious Game that provides an opportunity to learn more about Japanese culture and etiquette. ICURA incorporates different game design and learning principles to effectively communicate knowledge. The main goal is to combine aspects of learning and fun in an immersive 3D Environment to make the communication of knowledge an entertaining experience. We evaluated the game through a user study with 20 participants. The comparison of pre-and post-test results highlights the positive learning effect of ICURA.

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Section: A Educational Gamesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Design and evaluation of a Serious Game for immersive cultural training

Froschauer¹,

Seidel²,

Gärtner³

et al. 2010

2010 16th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia

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“…OpenSimulator was chosen as the platform to construct our VEs because of the following reasons (Fishwick and Henderson 2008 ): OpenSimulator is an open-source platform, which allows users to create, customize, and access VEs. It supports real-time interactive three-dimensional (3D) applications to create vivid tourism experience for participants.…”

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Experimental study on tourist satisfaction using participatory simulation in a virtual environment

2013

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Before traveling, tourists need to ensure that they will have a well-organized trip, which mainly involves a smooth flow of visits to different tourist attractions by themselves or following a pre-designed plan made by tourism service providers. The present study examined how the sequence of visiting tourist attractions influences tourist satisfaction at the expectation and experience levels. Participatory simulation with a virtual environment platform was employed in the experiments to assess their experience. The research reveals that the contrast bias has significant influence on the assessment.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/2193-1801-2-552) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“…This is similar to Second Life, a 3D virtual world built by users portrayed as 'avatars' (SecondLife 2012) or Second China project (Fishwick et al 2008) that integrated modeling methodology, virtual environments, agent-directed simulation, and simulation-based learning. It is imminent that performance simulations, in future, will not be rendered as a step in building design-construction-maintenance process, rather will become pervasive, i.e., become the process itself.…”

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Preliminary research in dynamic-BIM (D-BIM) Workbench development

Srinivasan¹,

Kibert²,

Thakur³

et al. 2012

Proceedings Title: Proceedings of the 2012 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)

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Past and ongoing research efforts toward seamless integration of building design and analysis have established a strong foothold in the building community. Yet, there is lack of seamless connectivity between Building Information Modeling (BIM) and building performance tools. D-BIM Workbench provides an essential framework to conduct integrated building performance assessments within BIM, an environment familiar to all stakeholders. With tighter tool integration within BIM, this open-source Workbench can be tailored to specific analysis such as energy, environmental, and economic impact of buildings. The Workbench, currently under development, will enable on-the-fly simulations of building performance tools to design, operate, and maintain a low / Net Zero Energy (NZE) built environment and beyond. This paper discusses the preliminary research in D-BIM Workbench development such as the Workbench architecture, its open-source environment, and other efforts currently under progress including integration of 3D heat transfer in the Workbench. INTRODUCTIONBuilding design and engineering is a complex process that involves participation of multiple stakeholders in a coordinated manner for efficient use of human and energy resources. Integration frameworks provide the necessary stage for such collaborations. Such frameworks include integration of building performance tools for design decision-making. There are integration tools that support building performance assessments ranging from daylighting studies to airflow simulations, with a common goal of optimizing building energy-and environmental-impacts. Establishing such an environment requires standard description of product models that define individual data objects and relationships to objects within the model, in a hierarchical representation. The formalization of STEP (ISO-10303, 1994) using EXPRESS data modeling language paved way for the development of more such integration. Particularly for built environments, the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC), which is based on object-based inheritance hierarchy for alleviating interoperability issues, is significant (BuildingSMART 2012).978-1-4673-4781-5/12/$31.00 ©2012 IEEE Srinivasan, RS., Kibert, CJ., Fishwick, P., Ezzell, Z., Lakshmanan, J., Thakur, S., Ahmed, I. IFC, the neutral model for Architectural-Engineering-Construction (AEC) industry, is slated to become an official international standard ISO-16739. Moreover, it has become the catalyst for the exponential growth of a, now, well-known collaboration framework, the BIM. Several research attempted such integration starting from myriad, yet powerful, thermal / daylighting analysis, to more seamless integration of wireless sensor network with performance tools -a cyber-physical systems' approach. Since the design of standard product model representation, there had been remarkable increase in research efforts leading to robust tools. Thus, for the purposes of this paper, the development of integration tools is discussed under two, broadly classified groups namely, t...

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Simulating culture: An experiment using a multi-user virtual environment

Cited by 10 publications

References 8 publications

Design and evaluation of a Serious Game for immersive cultural training

Design and evaluation of a Serious Game for immersive cultural training

Experimental study on tourist satisfaction using participatory simulation in a virtual environment

Preliminary research in dynamic-BIM (D-BIM) Workbench development

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