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This paper presents the design, implementation and evaluation of a mobile app addressing creativity and learning in the field of cultural heritage. This mobile app enables the users of an existing digital storytelling platform inspired by traditional Shadow Theatre, to develop their own digital puppets in a way that incorporates the creative process of developing traditional shadow theatre puppets. ePuppet offers two main modes of editing: The first one is based on certain templates and facilitates the creation of digital puppets that have a certain structure (i.e. 2- or 4-part puppets). The second one enables users to create any kind of puppet with any number of constituent parts. The evaluation results show that the mobile app is highly usable and can effectively support the task of digital puppet creation.
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This research is partly supported by the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science under the National Research Programme “Cultural heritage, national memory and development of society” and the National Scientific Program “Information and Communication Technologies for a Single Digital Market in Science, Education and Security” approved by DCM №577/17.08.2018.
ePuppet has been used in pilot activities with schools and professional associations in Chania, Greece, within the context of the Erasmus+ project TIM (2018–1-IT02-KA201–048139).
Puppets depicted in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6 are digital versions of original creations by Mr. Nikos Mplazakis, a professional Greek Shadow Theatre puppeteer.
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Moumoutzis, N. et al. (2022). EPuppet: A Mobile App to Extend a Digital Storytelling Platform with New Capabilities. In: Auer, M.E., Tsiatsos, T. (eds) New Realities, Mobile Systems and Applications. IMCL 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 411. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96296-8_83
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