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Enhancing the Educational Value of Tangible and Intangible Dimensions of Traditional Crafts Through Role-Play Gaming

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Advances in Cultural Heritage (CH) representation and presentation technologies are explored concerning new potentials brought by the gaming industry. These include the use of digitisation technologies for the creation of realistic digital assets, educational gaming concepts, and immersive technologies. In this context, it is shown how the creative sector can exploit these potentials in novel educational and gaming experiences, inspired by CH. The aim is to enhance the way that cultural content is experienced in the digital world, to present, and to valorise intangible dimensions and, ultimately, exploit technological advances to enhance our understanding, appreciation, and preservation of tangible and intangible heritage.

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This work has been conducted in the context of the Mingei project that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 822336.

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  1. Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, 100 N. Plastira Street, 70013, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

    Nikolaos Partarakis, Nikolaos Patsiouras, Thodoris Evdemon, Paraskevi Doulgeraki, Effie Karuzaki, Evropi Stefanidi, Stavroula Ntoa & Xenophon Zabulis

  2. Istituto Di Scienza e Tecnologie della Informazione (ISTI), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Area della Ricerca CNR, via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy

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Partarakis, N. et al. (2021). Enhancing the Educational Value of Tangible and Intangible Dimensions of Traditional Crafts Through Role-Play Gaming. In: Brooks, A., Brooks, E.I., Jonathan, D. (eds) Interactivity and Game Creation. ArtsIT 2020. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 367. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73426-8_14

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