A True AR Authoring Tool for Interactive Virtual Museums

Geronikolakis, Efstratios; Zikas, Paul; Kateros, Steve; Lydatakis, Nick; Georgiou, S.; Kentros, Mike; Papagiannakis, George

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-37191-3_12

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“…Current work (e.g., Rau et al (2022); Geronikolakis et al (2020); Apaza-Yllachura et al ( 2019)) explores module-based authoring of AR applications and targets to lower the barriers to getting started with the development of AR applications. Recently, similar ideas are used the industry, for example, Power Apps by Microsoft, 2021) or the XRTY App, 2021).…”

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Supporting the creation of non-linear everyday AR experiences in exhibitions and museums: An authoring process based on self-contained building blocks

Rau

Bitter

Liu

et al. 2022

Front. Virtual Real.

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The use of Augmented Reality (AR) has the potential to make everyday experiences exciting and educational. For example, AR can augment exhibits in museums with animated and interactive content. The creation of this content, however, is still facing challenges. To meet these, we employ reusable, pattern-based building blocks called AR nuggets. An AR nugget implements one application pattern in a small and self-contained piece of software to provide a complete solution for recurrent AR-based experiences. For example, in the application context of museums and exhibitions, we identify superimposition or visualization of echolocation as general patterns for AR use cases. AR nuggets encapsulate AR-specific knowledge and sophisticated functionalities to support authors and reduce the authoring task to tweaking existing templates to individual exhibits. To connect AR nuggets used in different exhibition rooms, we present novel AR nuggets that encapsulate the functionalities needed for creating a path between the exhibits. Additionally, we provide examples of AR nuggets that implement a virtual character that guides visitors to exhibits of interest. With this new set of AR nuggets, spatial connections can be authored, e.g., in the form of a guided tour with interactive narration. For this authoring task, we introduce an AR nugget manager that supports authors in creating and adapting multiple non-linear AR experiences. We illustrate our approach with the creation of an everyday AR application for a museum of natural history, share our experiences and discuss to what extent our approach can mitigate authoring challenges for everyday AR applications from a museum’s point of view. This work contributes to the field of everyday AR with 1) a pattern-based authoring concept to create complex everyday AR experiences based on self-contained building blocks, 2) a set of patterns that allows for spatial connections of these to create non-linear AR content, 3) means for supporting this authoring process in the form of an AR nugget manager, 4) lessons learned in applying our authoring concept in a real application case in a museum, 5) our observation of hurdles that still prevent more widespread use of AR in everyday applications during the realization of this application case.

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“…However, their authoring tool does not support other anchors in the real world than marker images and only supports the interaction possibilities of handheld devices. Geronikolakis et al (2020) introduce their authoring tool called M.A.G.E.S. platform that allows generating gamified AR experiences for virtual exhibitions.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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Supporting the creation of non-linear everyday AR experiences in exhibitions and museums: An authoring process based on self-contained building blocks

Rau

Bitter

Liu

et al. 2022

Front. Virtual Real.

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“…In conclusion, this paper opens the door to a more targeted multidisciplinary approach judiciously recruiting different forms of knowledge from the arts, the humanities and new digital technologies towards generating specific effects when it comes FIGURE 1 | Illustrating an AR virtual museum. On the left, the 3D reconstructed and animated priest of Asinou church in Cyprus (Geronikolakis et al, 2020).…”

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“…As Schuemie et al observe in their survey of presence in virtual environments: "presence as discussed in literature related to immersive VR can most often be characterized by the concept of presence as transportation: people are usually considered "present" in an immersive VR when they report a sensation of being in the virtual world ("you are there")" (2001). The same immersive principles also apply in Augmented Reality (AR) environments where True AR elements blend the real with the virtual world (Geronikolakis et al, 2020).…”

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From Readership to Usership: Communicating Heritage Digitally Through Presence, Embodiment and Aesthetic Experience

Bertrand

Vassiliadi

Zikas³

et al. 2021

Front. Commun.

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The primary mission of cultural institutions, including heritage sites and museums, is to perform and perpetuate Cultural Heritage (CH) by ideally transforming audiences into stewards of that heritage. In recent years, these institutions have increasingly turned to Mixed Reality (MR) technologies to expand and democratize public access to Cultural Heritage—a trend that is called upon to accelerate with COVID-19—because these technologies provide opportunities for more remote outreach, and moreover, can make partial remains or ruins more relatable to the public. But as emerging evaluations indicate, existing MR intangible and tangible Digital Cultural Heritage (DCH) applications are largely proving inadequate to engaging audiences beyond an initial fascination with the immersive 3D visualization of heritage sites and artefacts owing in part to misguided storytelling or non-compelling narratives. They fail to effectively communicate the significance of Cultural Heritage to audiences and impress upon them its value in a lasting way due to their overreliance on an education-entertainment-touristic consumption paradigm. Building on the recent case made for Literature-based MR Presence, this article examines how the literary tradition of travel narratives can be recruited to enhance presence and embodiment, and further elicit aesthetic experiences in Digital Cultural Heritage applications by drawing on recent findings from the fields of Extended Reality (XR), cognitive literary science and new museology. The projected effects of this innovative approach are not limited to an increase in audience engagement on account of a greater sense of presence and embodiment. This approach is also expected to prompt a different kind of public involvement characterized by a personal valuation of the heritage owing to aesthetic experience. As the paper ultimately discusses, this response is more compatible both with MR applications’ default mode of usership, and with newly emerging conceptions of a user-centered museum (e.g., the Museum 3.0), thereby providing a narrative roadmap for future Virtual Museum (VM) applications better suited to the primary mission of transmitting and perpetuating Cultural Heritage.

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“…One of the solutions suggested by Hinton et al is to leverage techniques from the information visualization domain to make online museums interactive, and exploratory access to cultural heritage data [37]. Researchers have leveraged techniques such as storytelling/narration [4] [30], augmented reality [34] [15], and virtual reality [5] [17] to make online museums interactive and more appealing to the users. Multiple visualization techniques such as usage of plots [2], clusters and sets [8], geographical maps [13] and networks [38] have also been utilized in the development of online museums.…”

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MuseumViz -- Towards Visualizing Online Museum Collections

Vagavolu,

Venigalla,

Chimalakonda

2021

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Despite the growth of online museums for India's cultural heritage data, there is limited increase in terms of visitors. Over the years, online museums adopted many techniques to improve the overall user experience. However, many Indian online museums display artifacts as lists and grids with basic search functionality, making it less visually appealing and difficult to comprehend. Our work aims to enhance the user experience of accessing Indian online museums by utilizing advancements in information visualization. Hence, we propose MuseumViz, a framework which processes data from online museums and visualizes it using four different interactive visualizations: the Network Graph, TreepMap, Polygon Chart and SunBurst Chart. We demonstrate MuseumViz on a total of 723 cultural heritage artifacts present in the Archaeological Survey of India, Goa. Based on our evaluation with 25 users, about 83% of them find it easier and more comprehensible to browse cultural heritage artifacts through MuseumViz.CCS Concepts: • Software and its engineering → Integrated and visual development environments.

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A True AR Authoring Tool for Interactive Virtual Museums

Cited by 9 publications

References 14 publications

Supporting the creation of non-linear everyday AR experiences in exhibitions and museums: An authoring process based on self-contained building blocks

Supporting the creation of non-linear everyday AR experiences in exhibitions and museums: An authoring process based on self-contained building blocks

From Readership to Usership: Communicating Heritage Digitally Through Presence, Embodiment and Aesthetic Experience

MuseumViz -- Towards Visualizing Online Museum Collections

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