Collaborative Gaming in the Gallo-Roman Museum to Increase Attractiveness of Learning Cultural Heritage for Youngsters

Abstract

We present Archie: a mobile guide system that uses a social-constructivist approach to enhance the learning experience for museum visitors [1, 2]. One of the implementations we created is a collaborative game for youngsters that is build on top of a generic mobile guide framework. The framework offers a set of services that support the creation of mobile guides that (a) have a rich interactive presentation, (b) provide communication facilities among visitors and (c) allow to personalize the interface according to the user group. The framework offers other technical capabilities as well, such as location detection and voice communication.