User Evaluation of a Multi-Platform Digital Storytelling Concept for Cultural Heritage

Vert, Silviu; Andone, Diana; Ternauciuc, Andrei; Mihaescu, Vlad; Rotaru, Oana; Mocofan, Muguras; Orhei, Ciprian; Vasiu, Radu

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“…Spotlight Heritage Timisoara is a digital cultural initiative of the Politehnica University of Timisoara that reveals, through digital storytelling, the city of Timisoara through stories of cultural and historical heritage, communities, and neighborhoods, interwoven with the personal stories of the inhabitants of yesterday and today [34]. The initiative employs an interactive touchscreen table, desktop/laptop, mobile, and AR platforms.…”

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Creating Location-Based Mobile Applications for Tourism: A Virtual AR Guide for Western Macedonia

Evagelou,

Kleftodimos,

Lappas

2024

Digital

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Augmented reality (AR) applications are currently used in many fields for communication and educational purposes. Tourism is also a sector where augmented reality is used for destination marketing and cultural heritage promotion. This study will focus on mobile location-based AR applications and their potential in tourism. Such applications can guide tourists to places of interest and enhance their overall experience. The aim of this paper is to present a mobile application that was created for tourists visiting the region of Western Macedonia, Greece. The application was developed in order to guide the users in the region, entertain them, and educate them about the region’s sights, cultural heritage, and other special characteristics. The paper also aims to present a large set of features that are present in the application, including various types of AR (marker-based, markerless, and location-based) in order to provide designers who wish to create AR applications for tourism with new ideas. The application was validated by a usability test, and its features were evaluated by 39 participants who completed a questionnaire with 29 Likert-scale items. This procedure revealed the level of acceptance for the application features, and valuable feedback was also received during a discussion with the participants about how the application could be upgraded in the future.

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Creating Location-Based Mobile Applications for Tourism: A Virtual AR Guide for Western Macedonia

Evagelou,

Kleftodimos,

Lappas

2024

Digital

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“…The respondents were urged to adopt the think-aloud protocol while assessing the digital game images to provide better insight into distinguishing visual image identification and its relationship with visual style classification (Vert et al, 2021). Previous studies have shown that the think-aloud method supported the improvement of visual style descriptions from a visual terminology perspective (Krupke et al, 2019).…”

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Improving Visual Style Classification in Digital Games Using Intercoder Reliability Assessment

Jamal

Yusof

Lim

et al. 2023

Journal of Information and Communication Technology

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The digital gaming community appreciates visual style information in digital games as it facilitates information seeking. Nevertheless, learned scholars have discovered that the digital game visual style classification is inconsistent and easily modified, potentially limitingthe information and leading to inaccurate visual terminologies during information discovery. Therefore, this cross-sectional study wasperformed to assess multiple visual style classification terms and their definitions among Malaysian game developers using the closedcard sorting exercise. A total of seven professional game developers participated in an online survey that comprised thirty-five digital game case studies using a card sorting technique. They were asked to classify nineteen visual style classification terms, including psychedelic, text, illusionism, photorealism, televisualism, handicraft, caricature, celshaded, comic book (anime), watercolour, Lego, minimalism, pixel art, silhouette, bright, dark, maplike, colourful, and black and white. The Fleiss’ kappa intercoder reliability assessment was performed to measure the coders’ agreement on visual style classification, followed by the think-aloud protocol descriptive analysis to gather assessment insights into the visual style descriptions. The intercoder reliability test achieved a significantly moderate agreement based on the results. The professional game developers agreed on eighteen visual stylesand rejected the bright visual style classification due to its overlapping description with the colourful visual style. The definition of ten visual style classifications was improved from the existing Video Game Metadata Schema (VGMS) description, contributing to the digital game’s coherence and consistency. This improvement will enhance visual style classification information for machine-learning-based recommendation systems for digital game distribution platforms and digital archiving.

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“…Spotlight Heritage Timisoara is a digital cultural initiative of the Politehnica University of Timisoara, realized in partnership with the National Museum of Banat, part of the Timisoara European Capital of Culture program. Spotlight Heritage Timisoara reveals, by digital storytelling, the city of Timisoara through stories of cultural and historical heritage, technical development, communities, and neighborhoods, interwoven with the personal stories of the inhabitants of yesterday and today [5].…”

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User experience proposal for mobile interactive experiences in cultural heritage and learning

Antonica¹,

Borobar²,

Rotaru³

et al. 2022

RoCHI - International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

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use application sells as it covers a much wider footprint of possible users; Learner-generated content, as well as context. The main key factors [3], [4] identified are: complexity of the environments; an open, adaptable, and agile environment; dynamic (rapid and complex) tools; frameworks diversity.1 https://spotlight-timisoara.eu/en/mobil-ar-vr/ ABSTRACT Nowadays, tourists' experience can be made highly interactive with the proper tools and technologies, such as augmented reality. While mobile augmented reality applications for tourism, cultural heritage and informal learning are not an absolute novelty, there is a clear need for improving the user experience of these tools. In this paper, we present a proposal for a redesign of the Spotlight Timisoara AR application, towards an app that incorporates both visual guidance through augmented reality and immersive learning functionality. The proposal is in the form of a clickable prototype, which was tested with real users. We describe the results of the implementation and testing of the proposed application.

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User Evaluation of a Multi-Platform Digital Storytelling Concept for Cultural Heritage

Cited by 14 publications

References 27 publications

Creating Location-Based Mobile Applications for Tourism: A Virtual AR Guide for Western Macedonia

Creating Location-Based Mobile Applications for Tourism: A Virtual AR Guide for Western Macedonia

Improving Visual Style Classification in Digital Games Using Intercoder Reliability Assessment

User experience proposal for mobile interactive experiences in cultural heritage and learning

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