TY - JOUR
KW - MDA (Mechanics
KW - Dynamics
KW - Aesthetics)
KW - constructive interaction
KW - cultural heritage
KW - cultural heritage professionals
KW - design thinking
KW - evaluation
KW - field playtesting
KW - field study
KW - field visits
KW - local communities
KW - mobile location-based games
KW - User experience
AU - Panayiotis Koutsabasis
AU - Konstantinos Partheniadis
AU - Anna Gardeli
AU - Panagiotis Vogiatzidakis
AU - Vasiliki Nikolakopoulou
AU - Pavlos Chatzigrigoriou
AU - Spyros Vosinakis
AU - Despina Filippidou
AB - The design of location-based games (LBGs) for cultural heritage should ensure the active participation and contribution of local communities and heritage professionals to achieve contextual relevance, importance, and content validity. This paper presents an approach and methods of the participatory and co-design of LBGs that promote awareness and learning about the intangible cultural heritage of craftsmanship and artisanal technology throughout a long-term project from sensitization to implementation. Following the design thinking process, we outline the participatory methods (and reflect on results and lessons learnt) of involving cultural heritage professionals, local communities, and visitors (users) of museums and cultural settlements, mainly: field visits, design workshops, field playtesting, and field studies. We discuss issues of participatory design that we experienced throughout the project such as participant centrality and representativeness, producing tangible output from meetings, co-creation of content via playtesting, and implications from the pandemic. This work contributes a case of participatory and co-design of LBGs for cultural heritage that is characterized by longevity and engagement throughout the design process for three LBGs of a museum network in different cultural sites.
BT - Multimodal Technologies And Interaction
DA - may
DO - 10.3390/mti6050036
M1 - 5
N2 - The design of location-based games (LBGs) for cultural heritage should ensure the active participation and contribution of local communities and heritage professionals to achieve contextual relevance, importance, and content validity. This paper presents an approach and methods of the participatory and co-design of LBGs that promote awareness and learning about the intangible cultural heritage of craftsmanship and artisanal technology throughout a long-term project from sensitization to implementation. Following the design thinking process, we outline the participatory methods (and reflect on results and lessons learnt) of involving cultural heritage professionals, local communities, and visitors (users) of museums and cultural settlements, mainly: field visits, design workshops, field playtesting, and field studies. We discuss issues of participatory design that we experienced throughout the project such as participant centrality and representativeness, producing tangible output from meetings, co-creation of content via playtesting, and implications from the pandemic. This work contributes a case of participatory and co-design of LBGs for cultural heritage that is characterized by longevity and engagement throughout the design process for three LBGs of a museum network in different cultural sites.
PY - 2022
T2 - Multimodal Technologies And Interaction
TI - Co-Designing the User Experience of Location-Based Games for a Network of Museums: Involving Cultural Heritage Professionals and Local Communities
VL - 6
SN - 2414-4088
ER -