A museum mobile game for children using QR-codes

Authors:
Ugo B. Ceipidor;Carlo M. Medaglia;Amedeo Perrone;Maria De Marsico;Giorgia Di Romano
Affiliations:
Sapienza University of Rome, Aldo Moro, Rome;Sapienza University of Rome, Aldo Moro, Rome;Sapienza University of Rome, Aldo Moro, Rome;Sapienza University of Rome, Via Salaria, Rome;Sapienza University of Rome, Via Salaria, Rome
Venue:
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
Year:
2009

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Abstract

We present a mobile game to play a museum treasure hunt, addressed to students that are about 11-14. They have to search for the "materializations" of the solutions to a sequence of riddles, and to photograph them by personal camera phones. The letters of a secret word are orderly provided on right answers, spurring the interest for the exhibition through the cellular phone. The novelty is the use of QR-Codes, a kind of 2D codes, to identify the correct answers and to enjoy some other services. A preliminary field test in the Norsk Telemuseum gave very good results.