Underwater Search and Discovery: From Serious Games to Virtual Reality

LIAROKAPIS, Fotios, Iveta VIDOVÁ, Selma RIZVIĆ, Stella DEMESTICHA and Dimitrios SKARLATOS. Underwater Search and Discovery: From Serious Games to Virtual Reality. In 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2020. Copenhagen, Denmark: Springer, 2020, p. 178-197. ISBN 978-3-030-59989-8. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59990-4_15.

Basic information

• Original name: Underwater Search and Discovery: From Serious Games to Virtual Reality
• Authors: LIAROKAPIS, Fotios (300 Greece), Iveta VIDOVÁ (703 Slovakia, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Selma RIZVIĆ, Stella DEMESTICHA and Dimitrios SKARLATOS.
• Edition: Copenhagen, Denmark, 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2020, p. 178-197, 20 pp. 2020.
• Publisher: Springer

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Proceedings paper
• Field of Study: 10201 Computer sciences, information science, bioinformatics
• Country of publisher: Switzerland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Publication form: printed version "print"
• Impact factor: Impact factor: 0.402 in 2005
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14330/20:00121580
• Organization unit: Faculty of Informatics
• ISBN: 978-3-030-59989-8
• ISSN: 0302-9743
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59990-4_15
• Keywords in English: Serious games; Virtual reality; Underwater archaeology
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

There are different ways of discovering underwater archaeological sites. This paper presents search techniques for discovering artefacts in the form of two different educational games. The first one is a classical serious game that assesses two maritime archaeological methods for search and discovering artefacts including circular and compass search. Evaluation results with 30 participants indicated that the circular search method is the most appropriate one. Based on these results, an immersive virtual reality search and discovery simulation was implemented. To educate the users about underwater site formation process digital storytelling videos were used when an artefact is discovered.