Ukko opaštau lapšie äijän - Serious games as tools for teaching Viena Karelian to Finns?
The Karelian language is the closest linguistic relative to Finnish. It is spoken in Finland and Russia, in the Republic of Karelia. Karelian is classified as a minority and endangered language. Karelian is divided into two main dialects; Karelian Proper and Olonets Karelian. Karelian Proper is divi...
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doaj-d9fc536e0bda42aaaa5c42df2606537d2020-11-25T01:29:33ZengFRUCTProceedings of the XXth Conference of Open Innovations Association FRUCT2305-72542343-07372019-11-0162225489500Ukko opaštau lapšie äijän - Serious games as tools for teaching Viena Karelian to Finns?Juha-Pekka Koski0Leena Arhippainen1University of Oulu, INTERACT Research Unit FinlandUniversity of Oulu, INTERACT Research Unit FinlandThe Karelian language is the closest linguistic relative to Finnish. It is spoken in Finland and Russia, in the Republic of Karelia. Karelian is classified as a minority and endangered language. Karelian is divided into two main dialects; Karelian Proper and Olonets Karelian. Karelian Proper is divided into North Karelia (Viena), and South Karelian. Viena Karelian is the closest dialect to Finnish language and it is needed for the communication between Finns and Viena Karelians. In this paper, we propose gamification approach and serious games to be taken as tools for revitalizing Karelian language and culture. This paper presents game prototypes called Šanakoški and Hirsipuu, which have been developed for teaching and learning Viena Karelian. We conducted user experience evaluations with 16 participants whose age varied from 10 to 84 years and 63 % of them had prior skills of Viena Karelian. The Šanakoški prototype was regarded as Easy to use, Support learning, Useful and Entertaining. Hirsipuu prototype was perceived as Inspiring, Easy to use, Entertaining, Useful and Fun.https://fruct.org/publications/acm25/files/Kos.pdf gamification and serious gamesmobile and web gamesuser experiencekarelian languageviena karelian dialectrevitalization |
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Juha-Pekka Koski Leena Arhippainen Ukko opaštau lapšie äijän - Serious games as tools for teaching Viena Karelian to Finns? Proceedings of the XXth Conference of Open Innovations Association FRUCT gamification and serious games mobile and web games user experience karelian language viena karelian dialect revitalization |
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Juha-Pekka Koski Leena Arhippainen |
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Ukko opaštau lapšie äijän - Serious games as tools for teaching Viena Karelian to Finns? |
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Ukko opaštau lapšie äijän - Serious games as tools for teaching Viena Karelian to Finns? |
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Ukko opaštau lapšie äijän - Serious games as tools for teaching Viena Karelian to Finns? |
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Ukko opaštau lapšie äijän - Serious games as tools for teaching Viena Karelian to Finns? |
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Ukko opaštau lapšie äijän - Serious games as tools for teaching Viena Karelian to Finns? |
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ukko opaštau lapšie äijän - serious games as tools for teaching viena karelian to finns? |
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The Karelian language is the closest linguistic relative to Finnish. It is spoken in Finland and Russia, in the Republic of Karelia. Karelian is classified as a minority and endangered language. Karelian is divided into two main dialects; Karelian Proper and Olonets Karelian. Karelian Proper is divided into North Karelia (Viena), and South Karelian. Viena Karelian is the closest dialect to Finnish language and it is needed for the communication between Finns and Viena Karelians. In this paper, we propose gamification approach and serious games to be taken as tools for revitalizing Karelian language and culture. This paper presents game prototypes called Šanakoški and Hirsipuu, which have been developed for teaching and learning Viena Karelian. We conducted user experience evaluations with 16 participants whose age varied from 10 to 84 years and 63 % of them had prior skills of Viena Karelian. The Šanakoški prototype was regarded as Easy to use, Support learning, Useful and Entertaining. Hirsipuu prototype was perceived as Inspiring, Easy to use, Entertaining, Useful and Fun. |
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gamification and serious games mobile and web games user experience karelian language viena karelian dialect revitalization |
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