The document discusses the Travel in Europe (TiE) project, which aims to promote European heritage through an online virtual world. The virtual world will allow high school students to explore 3D reconstructions of European cities and complete mini-games about the local artistic heritage. These mini-games and interactions with virtual humans seek to educate users about European culture through experiential learning techniques. Future work will focus on further developing the game engine and cultural environments as well as collecting additional content.

1. Exploring Gaming Mechanisms to Enhance Knowledge Acquisition in Virtual Worlds ELIOS Lab Riccardo Berta ELIOS Lab, DIBE, University of Genoa [email_address]

5. 2D Europe Map

6. 3D world

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14. mGame example

16. The TiE creative toolkit

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