Serious Games for Immersive Cultural Training: Creating a Living World

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March/April 2009 (vol. 29 no. 2)

pp. 49-60

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	Marjorie A. Zielke, Monica J. Evans, Frank Dufour, Timothy V. Christopher, Jumanne K. Donahue, Phillip Johnson, Erin B. Jennings, Brent S. Friedman, Phonesury L. Ounekeo, Ricardo Flores, "Serious Games for Immersive Cultural Training: Creating a Living World," IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 49-60, March/April, 2009.

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	@article{ 10.1109/MCG.2009.30, author = {Marjorie A. Zielke and Monica J. Evans and Frank Dufour and Timothy V. Christopher and Jumanne K. Donahue and Phillip Johnson and Erin B. Jennings and Brent S. Friedman and Phonesury L. Ounekeo and Ricardo Flores}, title = {Serious Games for Immersive Cultural Training: Creating a Living World}, journal ={IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications}, volume = {29}, number = {2}, issn = {0272-1716}, year = {2009}, pages = {49-60}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCG.2009.30}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, }

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Marjorie A. Zielke, University of Texas at Dallas

Monica J. Evans, University of Texas at Dallas

Frank Dufour, University of Texas at Dallas

Timothy V. Christopher, University of Texas at Dallas

Jumanne K. Donahue, University of Texas at Dallas

Phillip Johnson, University of Texas at Dallas

Erin B. Jennings, University of Texas at Dallas

Brent S. Friedman, University of Texas at Dallas

Phonesury L. Ounekeo, University of Texas at Dallas

Ricardo Flores, University of Texas at Dallas

DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCG.2009.30

Living worlds offer a nonlinear, unscripted process for experiencing and safely learning the cognitive complexity and nuance of culture through emergent high-fidelity simulation. The 3D Asymmetric Domain Analysis and Training model uses visual, auditory, behavioral, and cultural models for immersive cultural training using the living-world construct.

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Index Terms:

games, personal computing, computing milieu, social and behavioral sciences, computer applications, serious games

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Marjorie A. Zielke, Monica J. Evans, Frank Dufour, Timothy V. Christopher, Jumanne K. Donahue, Phillip Johnson, Erin B. Jennings, Brent S. Friedman, Phonesury L. Ounekeo, Ricardo Flores, "Serious Games for Immersive Cultural Training: Creating a Living World," IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 49-60, Mar./Apr. 2009, doi:10.1109/MCG.2009.30

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