KNOWLEDGE VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUE ON THAI DANCE MOVEMENT THROUGHT GAME-BASED LEARNING

Traditional Thai dance is one of the valuable intangible cultural heritage in the Southeast Asia region. Yet, the government reported the dramatically reduced number of Thai dance teachers and Thai dance students registering to the College of Dramatic Arts, Thailand. The statistic of students who enrolled at the college of dramatic arts, Thailand, from the last four years was surprisingly reduced and effected to a valuable cultural knowledge that must be maintained, preserved, and transferred as a living traditional art form in the future. Previously, the AniAge project had been proposed the Thai dance training tool with the aim of transferring the Thai dance knowledge and improve the Thai dance student performance. The tool provides the Thai dance students a process of practicing with a game-based learning method and the evaluating method. In the paper, twenty students from Chiang Mai College of Dramatic Arts, Thailand, participated using the Thai dance training tool. The evaluation was separated into two evaluations, which are performance evaluation and satisfaction evaluation. Overall, the performance evaluation indicated that the control group participants perform better than the experimental group. Nevertheless, the Thai dance training tool provided a good learning environment for the Thai dance students, which enhanced their performance. We believe that the Thai dance training tool will become the innovation platform for improving Thai dance students' performance.