The Ensoulment of Virtual Space Minecraft as a Tool for Engaging With a Sculpture Park

Flint, Tom; Turner, Phil; Banach, Agnieszka

Abstract

This is a demonstration of a Minecraft facsimile of Jupiter Artland, a sculpture park on the outskirts of Edinburgh. With the cooperation of primary school children we developed a mixed reality game employing Minecraft. Our aim is to investigate attachment to virtual space and the use of make-believe to manage this.

Citation

Flint, T., Turner, P., & Banach, A. (2016, June). The Ensoulment of Virtual Space Minecraft as a Tool for Engaging With a Sculpture Park. Presented at 15th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children - IDC '16

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: 15th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children - IDC '16
• Start Date: Jun 21, 2016
• End Date: Jun 24, 2016
• Acceptance Date: May 13, 2016
• Publication Date: Jun 21, 2016
• Deposit Date: Jul 30, 2016
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 680-683
• Book Title: IDC '16 Proceedings of the The 15th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
• ISBN: 9781450343138
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2930674.2938613
• Keywords: Minecraft; Make-Believe; Ensoulment; Mixed Reality; Presence.
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/320313