Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Archeologici

ICT in museums allows the development of an effective communication and dissemination system, involving visitors and scholars through the use of procedures related to Edutainment, interactive and immersive experience, serious games and gamification. Edutainment is seen as a multimedia modality that deals with the use of tools to instruct and educate while having fun. It takes this name from the union of the English words education "education" and entertainment "entertainment"; interactive experiences runs through a hardware interface an interaction between man and media (the simplest form is the touch screen of a mobile device - smartphone or tablet), more advanced forms involve the use of interactive sensors that recognize gestures of a man and transforms them into machine instructions (like leap motion 3D or microsoft kinect); immersive experiences are solutions where people have the perception of completely entering virtual reconstructions, remaining enveloped and captured by them. They provide immersive 3D visualization solutions, which through the use of head mount viewers transform Virtual Reality, or two-dimensional visualization on the display of smart devices, which allow to increase the information present in reality through an Augmented Reality procedure; serious games allows to learn by playing, while gamification to achieve goals by playing, and are some of the ways where traditional videogames or Games APP are used today, for smart tools, for playful, didactic and learning purposes.