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Audience Interactivity as Leverage for Effective Learning in Gaming Environments for Dome Theaters

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Informal or free-choice learning has become a well-established means of disseminating knowledge to school classrooms over the last years. Various technology-enhanced public spaces, like science centers and cultural heritage museums, are nowadays equipped with state-of-the-art digital dome theaters, where groups of people (mainly children) attend educational programmes. The overwhelming majority of such ‘shows’ include astronomical phenomena and in few cases cultural heritage. In this paper, we investigate the potential learning benefit of integrating audience interaction with gaming environments in the immersive space of a dome theater. In order to achieve this, we examine how six factors of the Contextual Model of Learning proposed by Falk & Dierking, can be applied in an integrated schema of group interactivity and game design in immersive learning environments.

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  • Audience Interaction
  • Informal Learning
  • Contextual Learning
  • Gaming Environments
  • Dome Theaters

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  1. Department of Cultural Technology and Communication, University of the Aegean, Harilaou Trikoupi & Faonos Street, 811 00, Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece

    Panagiotis Apostolellis & Thanasis Daradoumis

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  1. Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT, Schloss Birlinghoven, 53754, Sankt Augustin, Germany

    Martin Wolpers & Maren Scheffel & 

  2. Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies, Open Universiteit Nederland, Valkenburgerweg 177, 6419 AT, Heerlen, The Netherlands

    Paul A. Kirschner

  3. Know-Center, Inffeldgasse 21a, 8010, Graz, Austria

    Stefanie Lindstaedt

  4. School of Computing, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, Leeds, United Kingdom

    Vania Dimitrova

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Apostolellis, P., Daradoumis, T. (2010). Audience Interactivity as Leverage for Effective Learning in Gaming Environments for Dome Theaters. In: Wolpers, M., Kirschner, P.A., Scheffel, M., Lindstaedt, S., Dimitrova, V. (eds) Sustaining TEL: From Innovation to Learning and Practice. EC-TEL 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6383. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16020-2_36

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