TY - GEN
T1 - Design and evaluation of a Serious Game for immersive cultural training
AU - Wolfartsberger, Josef
AU - Seidel, Ingo
AU - Gärtner, Markus
AU - Berger, Helmut
AU - Merkl, Dieter
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - 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.
AB - 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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U2 - 10.1109/VSMM.2010.5665978
DO - 10.1109/VSMM.2010.5665978
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781424490264
T3 - 2010 16th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, VSMM 2010
SP - 253
EP - 260
BT - 2010 16th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, VSMM 2010
PB - IEEE Computer Society Press
T2 - International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia
Y2 - 20 October 2010 through 23 October 2010
ER -