DianTea:Designing and Evaluating an Immersive Virtual Reality Game to Enhance Youth Tea Culture Learning
Jiajia Li, Zixia Zheng, Yaqing Chai, Shizhen Su, Xiemin Wei, Hongning Shi, Xiangyang Xin · 2023
As an intangible cultural heritage of China, dian cha is a unique tea-drinking ritual in traditional Chinese tea culture. The ritual comprises various tea-drinking utensils and a specific tea art performance. Nowadays, many young Chinese increasingly ignore traditional Chinese cultural activities because of their high work pressures and fast-paced lives. To broaden the audience for traditional Chinese tea ceremonies and stimulate young people’s interest in learning tea culture, we propose “DianTea” as an immersive virtual reality tea-drinking game where remote players can practice the traditional dian cha ritual. The game design also includes a virtual teacher, multimodal interaction, social scene, and game-based learning. In this paper, we also perform an intersubject user study of the game’s interactive and browsing versions. The results show that the interactive game can significantly enhance learners’ knowledge acquisition, interactive experience, and sense of participation in the dian cha ritual.