Developing serious games for cultural heritage: a state-of-the-art review

Although the widespread use of gaming for leisure purposes has been well documented, the use of games to support cultural heritage purposes, such as historical teaching and learning, or for enhancing museum visits, has been less well considered. The state-of-the-art in serious game technology is identical to that of the state-of-the-art in entertainment games technology. As a result, the field of serious heritage games concerns itself with recent advances in computer games, real-time computer graphics, virtual and augmented reality and artificial intelligence. On the other hand, the main strengths of serious gaming applications may be generalised as being in the areas of communication, visual expression of information, collaboration mechanisms, interactivity and entertainment. In this report, we will focus on the state-of-the-art with respect to the theories, methods and technologies used in serious heritage games. We provide an overview of existing literature of relevance to the domain, discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the described methods and point out unsolved problems and challenges. In addition, several case studies illustrating the application of methods and technologies used in cultural heritage are presented

Fostering Creativity via Technoself Enhanced Learning with Emerging Technologies

Creative and collaborative learning has profound implications for all parts of the system we have built up in our societies — not only the education systems but also the social, economic and cultural systems. Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) research has increasingly focused on emerging technologies, Extended Reality (XR) to improve learner’s engagement in enriched multimodal learning environments. This paper recommends technoself pedagogy and investigates XR for creative learning as a frontier in TEL. In partnership with cultural sectors, we introduce the agile working process in the collaboration with the Alexandra Park and Palace Charitable Trust (AP) and report the project development of two pilot apps based on the proposed methodology. As a result, students as co-creators were engaged in pilot collaborative projects to work on the digital solutions that promote unforgettable stories. The prototypes exploited the latest development of Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and game and mobile technology. The pilot pedagogical practice focuses on providing a vibrant collaborative learning environment which fosters innovation and creativity, informed by practice, inspired by TEL research across disciplines. The collaborative learning practices also support cultural sectors to inspire their visitors and to help curators think beyond their current boundaries, providing a new, mixed media and technological approach to raise cultural awareness to wider audiences

Virtual Heritage

Virtual heritage has been explained as virtual reality applied to cultural heritage, but this definition only scratches the surface of the fascinating applications, tools and challenges of this fast-changing interdisciplinary field. This book provides an accessible but concise edited coverage of the main topics, tools and issues in virtual heritage. Leading international scholars have provided chapters to explain current issues in accuracy and precision; challenges in adopting advanced animation techniques; shows how archaeological learning can be developed in Minecraft; they propose mixed reality is conceptual rather than just technical; they explore how useful Linked Open Data can be for art history; explain how accessible photogrammetry can be but also ethical and practical issues for applying at scale; provide insight into how to provide interaction in museums involving the wider public; and describe issues in evaluating virtual heritage projects not often addressed even in scholarly papers. The book will be of particular interest to students and scholars in museum studies, digital archaeology, heritage studies, architectural history and modelling, virtual environments

Collaborative and Multi-Modal Mixed Reality for Enhancing Cultural Learning in Virtual Heritage

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