REENACT: Learning about Historical Battles and Wars through Augmented Reality and Role Playing - An EXPERIMEDIA Experiment

Martin López-Nores, Yolanda Blanco-Fernández, José J. Pazos-Arias, Alberto Gil-Solla, Jorge García-Duque, Manuel Ramos-Cabrer, Manolis Wallace

2013

Abstract

This paper presents one proposal to engage groups of people into immersive collective experiences to learn about a certain historical battle or war, from the point of view of reenactors and historians. The participants will be equipped with tactile mobile devices that interact with an augmented reality platform and an online environment for the orchestration of distributed live games, provided by the technological facility that is being developed within the EXPERIMEDIA FP7 project. We describe the implementation and experimentation plans, including a discussion of the indicators we will be measuring to assess Quality of Service, Quality of Experience and Quality of Community.

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López-Nores M., Blanco-Fernández Y., Pazos-Arias J., Gil-Solla A., García-Duque J., Ramos-Cabrer M. and Wallace M. (2013). REENACT: Learning about Historical Battles and Wars through Augmented Reality and Role Playing - An EXPERIMEDIA Experiment . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-8565-53-2, pages 160-165. DOI: 10.5220/0004396201600165


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@conference{csedu13,
author={Martin López-Nores and Yolanda Blanco-Fernández and José J. Pazos-Arias and Alberto Gil-Solla and Jorge García-Duque and Manuel Ramos-Cabrer and Manolis Wallace},
title={REENACT: Learning about Historical Battles and Wars through Augmented Reality and Role Playing - An EXPERIMEDIA Experiment},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2013},
pages={160-165},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004396201600165},
isbn={978-989-8565-53-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - REENACT: Learning about Historical Battles and Wars through Augmented Reality and Role Playing - An EXPERIMEDIA Experiment
SN - 978-989-8565-53-2
AU - López-Nores M.
AU - Blanco-Fernández Y.
AU - Pazos-Arias J.
AU - Gil-Solla A.
AU - García-Duque J.
AU - Ramos-Cabrer M.
AU - Wallace M.
PY - 2013
SP - 160
EP - 165
DO - 10.5220/0004396201600165