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Virtual Edo: Immersive Edo Period Educational MMORPG

Dive into a realistic 1603-1876 Japan in this non-fiction virtual environment. Engage with social structures, class systems, and historical activities like tea ceremonies and geisha performances. Enhance your knowledge through collaborative learning and skill progression. Experience auditory and visual actions, script-guided learning, and character development goals within this cultural representation. Adapt to a sensory-rich world, measuring your progress through user skill checklists and world exploration. Embark on a unique journey of learning and social interaction.

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Virtual Edo: Immersive Edo Period Educational MMORPG

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  1. A Traditional Japanese Virtual Environment

  2. Edo Period (1603~1876)

  3. Flow • Challenge of Edo • Learning for progression within the VE • Increasing students historic knowledge • Goals in Edo • To progress socially • Gain knowledge • Feed Back • Auditory and Visual (actions) • User Skill Check list (progress) • Control • Keyboard and Mouse (most preferable choice)

  4. MMORPG Style • Not fantasy, Non-Fiction! • A real representation of the social structure • A VE of the real world • Class structure • Become a specific class • Work through the classes skill set • Progress in each class • Interact with other classes (NPC or Player) • Socially • For development

  5. Social Richness • Learning as: • A team/collective • Peer based learning • Collaborative participation for entertainment • An individual • In game non-playing characters (NPC’s) • Build relationships with NPC’s (teachers, etc)

  6. Learning & Teaching • Script Guided • Onscreen cues and guidelines • Self Guided • Free to explore the environment at own pace without cues • Users are accountable for their own learning and progress through the VE • Double bladed sword • Learning what the Japanese learnt • Learning how the Japanese learnt & taught

  7. Task Performance • Character Class Development • Specific goals to proceed in class maturity • Learn the Dance • Practise brush stroke • World Environment Exploration • Partaking in routine rituals • Tea Ceremonies • Geisha performances • Visiting a temple (etiquette must be upheld) • Learn the Dance • Practise brush stroke

  8. Feed Back & Progression • User Skill Check list • Measuring character maturity • World Accomplishment Check list • Measuring users exploration of the VE Steering away from currency as a dependency and a form of feedback

  9. Audio Presence via Sensory Richness • Ambience • Appropriate auditory feedback for actions

  10. Questions?

  11. References • Witmer, B.G., & Singer, M.J. (1998). Measuring presence in virtual environments: a presence questionnaire. Presence 7:225–240. • Schuemie, M.J., Straaten, P.V., Krijn, M., et al. (2001). Research on presence in VR: a survey. CyberPsychology & Behavior 4:183–201. • Mikropoulos, T.A., Strouboulis V. (2004) Factors That Influence Presence in Educational Virtual Environments. CyberPsychology & Behavior 5:582–591. • Slater, M., Usoh, M., & Steed, A. (1995). Taking steps: the influence of a walking technique on presence in virtual reality. ACM Transactions on CHI 2:201–219. • T. A. Mikropoulos, A. Chalkidis, A. Katsikis, and A. Emvalotis, Students Attitude toward Educational Virtual Environments, Education and Information Technologies, 3, pp. 137–148, 1998. • Brain Activity On Navigation In Virtual Environments http://depts.washington.edu/edtech/tassos_brain.pdf • http://www.energybulletin.net/5140.html • http://www.edo-tokyo-museum.or.jp/english/index.html • http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2130.html • www.yenwen.net • www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc • http://mrl.nyu.edu/~weishao/travel/japan/japan.html • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakura • http://www.fvza.org/images/katana.jpg • http://www.temple.edu/ispr/prev_conferences/proceedings/98-99-2000/2000/Waterworth.html • http://www.uky.edu/~drlane/tphilosophy.htm

  12. Visual Style

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