Designing history learning games for museums. An alternative approach for visitors' engagement

Pablo Aguirrezabal; Rosa Peral; Ainhoa Pérez; Sara Sillaurren

doi:10.1145/2617841.2617847

Designing history learning games for museums. An alternative approach for visitors' engagement

Pablo Aguirrezabal, Rosa Peral, Ainhoa Pérez, Sara Sillaurren

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Abstract

In this paper we describe the work carried out in the PLAYHIST experiment in which we propose the use of gaming technologies to convert an interactive virtual reality film into a multiuser game with real 3D avatars to improve visitors' engagement when visiting a cultural center and museum about Hellenic history.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2014 Virtual Reality International Conference, VRIC 2014
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450326261
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2617841.2617847
Publication status	Published - 9 Apr 2014
Event	2014 Virtual Reality International Conference, VRIC 2014 - Laval, France Duration: 9 Apr 2014 → 11 Apr 2014

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Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Volume	2014-April

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Conference	2014 Virtual Reality International Conference, VRIC 2014
Country/Territory	France
City	Laval
Period	9/04/14 → 11/04/14

Keywords

Avatars
Engagement
Game based learning
Museums

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Aguirrezabal, P., Peral, R., Pérez, A., & Sillaurren, S. (2014). Designing history learning games for museums. An alternative approach for visitors' engagement. In Proceedings of the 2014 Virtual Reality International Conference, VRIC 2014 Article a6 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 2014-April). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2617841.2617847

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Aguirrezabal, P, Peral, R, Pérez, A & Sillaurren, S 2014, Designing history learning games for museums. An alternative approach for visitors' engagement. in Proceedings of the 2014 Virtual Reality International Conference, VRIC 2014., a6, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, vol. 2014-April, Association for Computing Machinery, 2014 Virtual Reality International Conference, VRIC 2014, Laval, France, 9/04/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2617841.2617847

Designing history learning games for museums. An alternative approach for visitors' engagement. / Aguirrezabal, Pablo; Peral, Rosa; Pérez, Ainhoa et al.
Proceedings of the 2014 Virtual Reality International Conference, VRIC 2014. Association for Computing Machinery, 2014. a6 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 2014-April).

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