A storytelling smart-city approach to further cross-regional tourism

N Fischöder, IA Iurgel, TI Sezen… - … , Game Creation, Design …, 2019 - Springer
Museums are crucial elements of regional and local cultural offerings and can play a major
role in tourism-related, educational, economical and urban-planning policies. To increase …

Interactive Narrative Design for Geographically Dispersed Points of Interest

T Sezen, I Iurgel, N Fischöder, D Sezen - Making Smart Cities More …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract In 2020, the RheijnLand. Xperiences project will connect eight museums along the
Dutch-German border region by a continuation network using a story-driven application for …

An Innovative Platform for Creating Audience-Specific Gamified Cultural Tourism Guides Where Art, Tradition and Culture, Technology and Business Converge

KI Kotsopoulos, P Chourdaki, R Antoniadis… - … Marketing and Tourism …, 2019 - Springer
Digital realities and gaming combined with existing communication technologies offer
tremendous opportunities in the development of strategic innovative marketing. In parallel …

[PDF][PDF] The gamification of heritage in the unesco enlisted medieval town of Rhodes.

D Papathanasiou-Zuhrt, DF Weiss-Ibanez, A Di Russo - GamiFIN, 2017 - researchgate.net
“Grand Master Challenge” is a heritage game developed under the umbrella of
DIVERTIMENTO, an ongoing Project within the COSME PROGRAMME 2014-2020. The …

Gamifying cultural experiences across the urban environment

C Prandi, A Melis, M Prandini, G Delnevo… - Multimedia Tools and …, 2019 - Springer
New media and devices are offering huge possibilities for the enhancement and the
enrichment of heritage experiences, improving the users' involvement. In particular, tourists …

BRENDA digital tours: Designing a gamified augmented reality application to encourage gastronomy tourism and local food exploration

I Deliyannis, SM Poulimenou, P Kaimara… - Cultural Sustainable …, 2022 - Springer
Local food is an essential component of the appeal of a destination for those who wish to
experience culinary traditions and gain deep and authentic sense of a place. Within this …

Interactive Virtual Tours: A Contribution to Promoting Tourism

V Gonçalves, J Costa - Advances in Tourism, Technology and Systems …, 2023 - Springer
Tourism plays a crucial role in the world economy, and in this sense, digital technologies
have been an asset to promote the sector. Digital technologies have revolutionized society …

An ontological digital storytelling to enrich tourist destinations and attractions with a mobile tailored story

F Clarizia, S Lemma, M Lombardi, F Pascale - Green, Pervasive, and …, 2017 - Springer
Storytelling has evolved over the years: its ability to enchant, transform and persuade makes
it a formidable mean, malleable and customizable, but not easy to use. The use of new …

[PDF][PDF] An Interactive Game Supported by IoT Devices to Improve Visiting Experiences of Cultural Sites.

F Balducci, P Buono, MF Costabile, G Desolda… - EMPATHY …, 2022 - ceur-ws.org
This paper presents an IoT-based game for cultural sites, Magic Torch, which aims to
improve the visitors User eXperiences. It enables tangible interaction with'smart'artifacts that …

Leveraging on transmedia entertainment-education to offer tourists a meaningful experience

M Dionisio, V Nisi, N Correia - … , Madeira, Portugal, November 14–17, 2017 …, 2017 - Springer
Interactive technologies provide the tools to empower audiences to participate in new
interactive storytelling experiences applied to tourism. We envisage studying how …