DocumentCode
2205170
Title
Designing Cultural Heritage Contents for Serious Virtual Worlds
Author
Bellotti, Francesco ; Berta, Riccardo ; De Gloria, A. ; Panizza, Giulia ; Primavera, Ludovica
Author_Institution
DIBE, Univ. of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
fYear
2009
fDate
9-12 Sept. 2009
Firstpage
227
Lastpage
231
Abstract
This paper discusses a virtual world (VW) environment, called travel in Europe (TiE), aimed at promoting a meaningful interaction with artistic heritage. TiE is based on contents collected by cultural experts, which are offered to the user through an online 3D VW. In TiE users live challenging and compelling experiences by interacting with virtual representations of the European heritage. The paper present the main concept of TiE and come lessons learned useful for cultural experts interested in developing contents for VWs.
Keywords
computer games; humanities; virtual reality; artistic heritage; cultural heritage contents; online 3D VW; travel in Europe; virtual worlds; Artificial intelligence; Best practices; Cultural differences; Databases; Engines; Europe; Multimedia systems; Navigation; User-generated content; Vehicles; Serious Games; User Generated Contents.; Virtual World;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Virtual Systems and Multimedia, 2009. VSMM '09. 15th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Vienna
Print_ISBN
978-0-7695-3790-0
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/VSMM.2009.41
Filename
5306006
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