Cultural Heritage, Serious Games and User Personas Based on Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences: 'The Stolen Painting' Game

摘要

The main feature of a Serious Game (SG) is its objective of supporting the player to achieve learning targets through a fun experience. The paper focuses on the creation of a digital cultural SG, named "The stolen painting". The main goal of this game is to initiate users into art painting, through game activities that encourage the users to learn about some of the most famous paintings in the world and their creators. The theory of Gardner's Multiple Intelligences (MI) is used for game profile identification through social media data mining techniques, or alternatively, through Multiple Intelligences Profiling Questionnaire (MIPQ) in order to reveal and quantify the different types of intellectual strengths (intelligences) that each user exhibits. Game's progress is based on the three strongest intelligences of the player and the main objective of the player is to reveal the stolen painting's identity.