Development of Serious Games for Music Education
Résumé
Serious games have proved to be an effective educational tool in many
fields. The first goal of this paper is to illustrate some possible applications
to music and their advantages. Moreover, music can be characterized by
heterogeneous multimedia contents. Among the different facets music
information is made of it is worth citing music symbols, their graphical
representations as scores, their audio renderings as tracks, etc. The
international standard known as IEEE 1599 is an XML multilayer format
for heterogeneous music contents, and describes such different aspects
in an integrated and synchronized context. Making relationships among
music contents explicit provides a potentially rich educational environment.
Consequently, this paper discusses the concept of multilayer learning object,
introduces the IEEE 1599 standard, and finally shows some applications
and case studies.