sg 18(14): e3

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Encouraging persons to visit cultural sites through mini-games

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  • @ARTICLE{10.4108/eai.4-1-2018.153531,
    author={Massimo Mecella and Francesco Leotta and Andrea Marrella and Federico Palucci and Chiara Seri and Tiziana Catarci},
    title={Encouraging persons to visit cultural sites through mini-games},
    journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on Serious Games},
    volume={4},
    number={14},
    publisher={EAI},
    journal_a={SG},
    year={2018},
    month={1},
    keywords={gamification, mobile applications, authoring tool, cultural heritage},
    doi={10.4108/eai.4-1-2018.153531}
}
  • Massimo Mecella
    Francesco Leotta
    Andrea Marrella
    Federico Palucci
    Chiara Seri
    Tiziana Catarci
    Year: 2018
    Encouraging persons to visit cultural sites through mini-games
    SG
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.4-1-2018.153531
Massimo Mecella1,*, Francesco Leotta1, Andrea Marrella1, Federico Palucci1, Chiara Seri1, Tiziana Catarci1
  • 1: Sapienza Università di Roma, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e Gestionale, Italy
*Contact email: mecella@diag.uniroma1.it

Abstract

Gamification has been recently proposed as a technique to improve user engagement in different activities, including visits to cultural sites and cultural tourism in general. We present the design, development and initial validation of the NEPTIS Poleis system, which consists of a mobile application and a Web interface for curators, allowing the definition, and subsequent fruition by users, of different minigames suitable for open-air assets.

Keywords
gamification, mobile applications, authoring tool, cultural heritage
Received
2017-12-06
Accepted
2017-12-13
Published
2018-01-04
Publisher
EAI
http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.4-1-2018.153531

Copyright © 2018 Francesco Leotta et al., licensed to EAI. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unlimited use, distribution and reproduction in any medium so long as the original work is properly cited.