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A pervasive role-playing game for introducing elementary school students to archaeology

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Natalia Georgiadi,

Eleni Kokkoli-Papadopoulou,

George Kordatos,

Konstantinos Partheniadis,

Manos Sparakis,

Panayiotis Koutsabasis,

Spyros Vosinakis,

Dimitris Zissis,

Modestos StavrakisAuthors Info & Claims

MobileHCI '16: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Adjunct

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2957265.2963117

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This paper presents ongoing work on the design and prototyping of a pervasive, role-playing game for elementary school students. The game takes place in a designated space presented as an excavation site, in which students become acquainted with a number of principal roles and tasks taking place in archaeological fieldwork. The educational goals are to introduce students to fundamental archaeology concepts and to inform them about the historical background of a specific site and the discovered artifacts. The game apparatus consists of a mobile application (android), a number of small wireless sensors (beacons), tangible models of the antiquities and simplified prop tools of the archaeological equipment (3D printed). The paper outlines the main design concepts, technologies used and gameplay and reports on a preliminary evaluation.

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MobileHCI '16: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Adjunct

September 2016

664 pages

ISBN:9781450344135

DOI:10.1145/2957265

General Chairs:
Fabio Paternò
CNR-ISTI, Italy
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Tampere University of Technology, Finland
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Intercom, USA
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University of Lapland, Finland
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DFKI, Germany
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University of Toulouse, France

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