Using Virtual Environments to Tell the Story: "The Battle of Thermopylae"

Christopoulos, Dimitrios; Mavridis, Pavlos; Andreadis, Anthousis; Karigiannis, John

doi:10.1109/vs-games.2011.18

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“…So this project brings cultural heritage back to virtual life that is otherwise no longer accessible. Christopoulos et al [2011] describe a virtual reality exhibit implemented by the museum of Thermopylae located at the site of the original battle. The developers used storytelling techniques and modern video game principles to communicate knowledge of the battle and its associated legends.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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Art history concepts at play with ThIATRO

Froschauer

Merkl

Arends

et al. 2013

J. Comput. Cult. Herit.

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Games have become an integral part of today's culture, most obviously among younger people. At the same time, learning games have proved that they can be a source of enjoyment and are, if well-made, powerful tools for communicating knowledge. For cultural heritage projects targeted to raising the awareness of the general public, the integration of interactivity and innovative storytelling techniques can be supporting elements to capture their target audiences' enthusiasm. In particular, games that deal with art history have particular flaws in integrating motivating elements. This observation led us to the development of the 3D online learning game, ThIATRO, that immerses the player an exhibition and, as a side-effect communicates knowledge of art history concepts to the player. Its playful approach not only increases motivation to learn but also raises interest in art history and cultural heritage in general. We provide an overview of the design ideas behind ThIATRO and summarize the results of evaluations conducted with a group of 14-year-old pupils in a classroom environment. The results indicate that ThIATRO changes the player's aesthetic response and allows him or her to perceive art on a deeper level.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Art history concepts at play with ThIATRO

Froschauer

Merkl

Arends

et al. 2013

J. Comput. Cult. Herit.

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“…There are numerous research reports exploring the development, implementation and evaluation of cultural heritage serious games [17,[23][24][25][26][27][28][29]. Furthermore, Schaller makes specific recommendations for designing games for museums, an approach applicable to any culture heritage application [28].…”

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Game-Based Learning in Museums—Cultural Heritage Applications

Ćosović

Brkić

2019

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As traditional museums migrate to the virtual world, they offer wider access to the exhibit collections but often fail to present content of those collections in more engaging way. Game-based learning is one of the solutions to mitigate this inevitable transition and support active learning in the process. It is increasingly gaining interest from the cultural heritage scientific community for the purpose of promoting cultural heritage, raising awareness of its importance and motivating users to visit cultural institutions such as museums more often. There are numerous examples of serious games that are based on or contain heritage content. Tangible cultural heritage is more represented in the virtual worlds and mainly based on applications of 3D technology. Recently, intangible cultural heritage is gaining more visibility within cultural heritage scope as a domain in which game-based learning could assist in its preservation. This paper attempts to address pros and cons of game-based learning in general and reflect on the choices of using serious games in the museum environment.

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“…Priory Undercrofts game aims to solve a treasure hunt scenario by collecting medieval objects that used to be located in and around of the object which are the remains of the Coventry's original Benedictine monastery, demolished by Henry VIII (Doulamis et al 2012). Another game is the Battle of Thermopylae in which storytelling techniques and principles of modern videogames are utilized to disseminate historical knowledge about the battle and the associated legends (Christopoulos et al 2011). THIATRO (Froschauer et al 2012;Froschauer et al2013) is an online learning game that immerses the player into an exhibition and, as a side-effect, knowledge of art history concepts are communicated to the player.…”

Section: Serious Games In Cultural Heritagementioning

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Exploiting Textured 3D Models for Developing Serious Games

Kontogianni

Georgopoulos

2015

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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ABSTRACT:Digital technologies have affected significantly many fields of computer graphics such as Games and especially the field of the Serious Games. These games are usually used for educational proposes in many fields such as Health Care, Military applications, Education, Government etc. Especially Digital Cultural Heritage is a scientific area that Serious Games are applied and lately many applications appear in the related literature. Realistic 3D textured models which have been produced using different photogrammetric methods could be a useful tool for the creation of Serious Game applications in order to make the final result more realistic and close to the reality. The basic goal of this paper is how 3D textured models which are produced by photogrammetric methods can be useful for developing a more realistic environment of a Serious Game. The application of this project aims at the creation of an educational game for the Ancient Agora of Athens. The 3D models used vary not only as far as their production methods (i.e. Time of Flight laser scanner, Structure from Motion, Virtual historical reconstruction etc.) is concerned, but also as far as their era as some of them illustrated according to their existing situation and some others according to how these monuments looked like in the past. The Unity 3D ® game developing environment was used for creating this application, in which all these models were inserted in the same file format. For the application two diachronic virtual tours of the Athenian Agora were produced. The first one illustrates the Agora as it is today and the second one at the 2 nd century A.D. Finally the future perspective for the evolution of this game is presented which includes the addition of some questions that the user will be able to answer. Finally an evaluation is scheduled to be performed at the end of the project.

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Using Virtual Environments to Tell the Story: "The Battle of Thermopylae"

Cited by 50 publications

References 13 publications

Art history concepts at play with ThIATRO

Art history concepts at play with ThIATRO

Game-Based Learning in Museums—Cultural Heritage Applications

Exploiting Textured 3D Models for Developing Serious Games

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