Abstract
Immersive playful activities are regarded to be a promising way for increasing children’s understanding of significant issues. This paper proposes an immersive interactive tunnel environment, for which we developed a serious game to raise awareness on children and young adults on environmental issues and endangered species, and specifically, about Caretta caretta. The paper first describes the design and implementation of the CAVE-tunnel system; then, it discusses the design and development of the serious game “Turtle Heroes”. This is a work in progress while more games are in the design process for this VR interactive tunnel setup. Possible uses, opportunities and future works-games in this environment are also discussed.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Notes
- 1.
WWF Greece, the threats Caretta caretta turtles face in Greece, online at https://www.wwf.gr/en/our_work/nature/marine/endangered_species/caretta_caretta_turtle/, last accessed 15th September 2022.
References
Huang, W., Roscoe, R.D., Johnson-Glenberg, M.C., Craig, S.D.: Motivation, engagement, and performance across multiple virtual reality sessions and levels of immersion. J. Comput. Assist. Learn. 37(3), 745–758 (2021)
Nikolaou, A., Schwabe, A., Boomgaarden, H.: Changing social attitudes with virtual reality: a systematic review and meta-analysis. In: Annals of the International Communication Association, pp. 1–32 (2022)
Biocca, F., Levy, M.R.: Communication in the Age of Virtual Reality. Routledge, Abingdon (2013)
Ishii, A., Tsuruta, M., Suzuki, I., Nakamae, S., Suzuki, J., Ochiai, Y.: Let your world open: CAVE-based visualization methods of public virtual reality towards a shareable VR experience. In: Proceedings of the 10th Augmented Human International Conference 2019, pp. 1–8 (2019)
Ardiny, H., Khanmirza, E.: The role of AR and VR technologies in education developments: opportunities and challenges. In: 2018 6th RSI International Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (IcRoM), pp. 482–487 (2018)
Checa, D., Bustillo, A.: A review of immersive virtual reality serious games to enhance learning and training. Multimed. Tools Appl. 79(9), 5501–5527 (2020)
Subramanian, S., Skjæret-Maroni, N., Dahl, Y.: Systematic review of design guidelines for full-body interactive games. Interact. Comput. 32(4), 367–406 (2020)
Kaza, K., et al.: Body motion analysis for emotion recognition in serious games. In: Antona, M., Stephanidis, C. (eds.) UAHCI 2016. LNCS, vol. 9738, pp. 33–42. Springer, Cham (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40244-4_4
He, G.-F., Park, J.-W., Kang, S.-K., Jung, S.-T.: Development of gesture recognition-based serious games. In: Proceedings of 2012 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, pp. 922–925 (2012)
Avola, D., Cinque, L., Foresti, G.L., Marini, M.R.: An interactive and low-cost full body rehabilitation framework based on 3D immersive serious games. J. Biomed. Inform. 89, 81–100 (2019)
Bowman, D.A., Gabbard, J.L., Hix, D.: A survey of usability evaluation in virtual environments: classification and comparison of methods. Presence: Teleoper. Virtual Environ. 11(4), 404–424 (2002)
Casale, P., et al.: Mediterranean sea turtles: current knowledge and priorities for conservation and research. Endangered Species Res. 36, 229–267 (2018)
Rankin, J.R., Vargas, S.S.: FPS extensions modelling ESGs. In: 2009 Second International Conferences on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions, pp. 152–155 (2009)
Van de Mosselaer, N.: Comedy and the dual position of the player. In: Bonello Rutter Giappone, K., Majkowski, T.Z., Švelch, J. (eds.) Video Games and Comedy. PSC, pp. 35–52. Springer, Cham (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88338-6_2
Berk, R.A.: Professors Are from Mars [R], Students Are from Snickers [R]: How To Write and Deliver Humor in the Classroom and in Professional Presentations. ERIC (2003)
Garner, R.L.: Humor in pedagogy: how ha-ha can lead to aha! Coll. Teach. 54(1), 177–180 (2006)
Banas, J.A., Dunbar, N., Rodriguez, D., Liu, S.-J.: A review of humor in educational settings: four decades of research. Commun. Educ. 60(1), 115–144 (2011)
Taylor, J., et al.: Efficient and precise interactive hand tracking through joint, continuous optimization of pose and correspondences. ACM Trans. Graph. (TOG) 35(4), 1–12 (2016)
Hunicke, R., LeBlanc, M., Zubek, R.: MDA: a formal approach to game design and game research. In: Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Challenges in Game AI, vol. 4, no. 1, p. 1722 (2004)
Madsen, H., Johansson, T.D.: Gameplay Rhetoric: A Study of the Construction of Satirical and Associational Meaning in Short Computer Games for the WWW (2002)
Acknowledgment
This research has been funded within the framework of the operational program “Peloponnese 2014–2020”, (project code: 80578).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2022 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this paper
Cite this paper
Theodoropoulos, A., Roinioti, E., Dejonai, M., Aggelakos, Y., Lepouras, G. (2022). Turtle Heroes: Designing a Serious Game for a VR Interactive Tunnel. In: Kiili, K., Antti, K., de Rosa, F., Dindar, M., Kickmeier-Rust, M., Bellotti, F. (eds) Games and Learning Alliance. GALA 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13647. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22124-8_1
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22124-8_1
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-031-22123-1
Online ISBN: 978-3-031-22124-8
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)