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During recent years, information and communication technologies have widely affected the cultural heritage sector, offering incredible opportunities to enhance the experiential value of heritage assets. Digital tools are powerful instruments for improving the cultural activities, and at the same time, they represent new paradigms for enhancing the diffusion and acquisition of the cultural message. Techniques such as augmented reality, virtual reality and, more broadly, all multimedia technologies, are offering the visitors new opportunities of interaction with the cultural activities. Furthermore, another trend has gained significant attention: increasing user’s engagement through gamification. Several studies have showed the efficacy of gamification and serious games in learning, revealing improvements in learning achievements. This research aims at investigating and proposing new tools to improve the interest of students in cultural heritage and enhance their learning experience. We describe the design, development and use of a game addressed mainly to primary school students, which utilizes computer vision techniques and computer graphics to raise their engagement during educational workshops at the Caracciolo Castle in the town of Sammichele di Bari (Bari, Italy). The game combines manual activities with visual information in computer graphics, showed in a digital screen. The interaction with the player relies on a tangible user interface based on computer vision techniques. Our system utilizes a simple web camera, which recognizes the user’s interactions with the tangible game board during the game, and guarantees a kinesthetic learning process. In this paper, we provide detailed descriptions of the system and, afterwards, we discuss the possible implications. |
