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Theoretical Issues for Game-based Virtual Heritage

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Immersive Education (EiED 2014)

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This paper critiques essential features in prominent theories of serious games, and compares them to interaction features of commercial computer games that could be used for history and heritage-based learning in order to develop heuristics that may help future the specific requirements of serious game design for interactive history and digital heritage.

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  1. School of Media Culture and Creative Arts, Faculty of Humanities, Curtin University, Perth, Australia

    Erik Champion

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  1. Graz Univ. of Technology, Graz, Austria

    Martin Ebner

  2. University of Applied Sciences bfi Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Kai Erenli

  3. University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Rainer Malaka

  4. Graz Univ. of Technology, Graz, Austria

    Johanna Pirker

  5. Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Aaron E. Walsh

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Champion, E. (2015). Theoretical Issues for Game-based Virtual Heritage. In: Ebner, M., Erenli, K., Malaka, R., Pirker, J., Walsh, A. (eds) Immersive Education. EiED 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 486. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22017-8_11

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