Title

Designing An Authoring Environment For Community-Created Virtual Heritage Environments: Experiences With The Geografia Platform

Keywords

Community history; Geographic narrative; Mobile storytelling

Abstract

The melding of geographic data and traditional storytelling methods demonstrates great potential for educators across the social sciences. However, despite the drive toward web 2.0 technologies, authoring a location-based narrative for mobile platforms remains a high-barrier proposition difficult to crowd source. Geografia is an authoring tool that gives communities the power to create a virtual heritage environment detailing their town's history. This paper discusses the design of the Geografia platform and the implications raised from its first deployment in which approximately 80 secondary school students collaborated to form a geo-narrative of an event in their community's history. Copyright © 2012 by the Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM).

Publication Date

12-4-2012

Publication Title

GROUP'12 - Proceedings of the ACM 2012 International Conference on Support Group Work

Number of Pages

95-98

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1145/2389176.2389190

Socpus ID

84870277532 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84870277532

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