Exploring Cultural Heritage Collections in Immersive Analytics: Challenges, Benefits, and a Case Study Using Virtual Reality

Koebel, Kathrin; Agotai, Doris; Çöltekin, Arzu

doi:10.5194/isprs-archives-xliii-b4-2020-599-2020

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“…In the literature, few tools [216] exist for immersive analytics of visual media only. However, cultural heritage research can benefit from the auditory component.…”

Section: Immersive Analyticsmentioning

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The Role of Audio in Immersive Storytelling: a Systematic Review in Cultural Heritage

Privitera,

Fontana,

Geronazzo

2024

Multimed Tools Appl

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Nowadays, Virtual and Augmented Reality technologies play a supportive role in many research fields. In cultural heritage, various examples are available, including storytelling and narratives, where they can provide immersive and enhanced experiences to visitors and tourists, especially for entertainment and educational purposes. This review aims to investigate the opportunities that soundscape design and advanced sonic interactions in virtual and augmented environments can bring to cultural heritage sites and museums in terms of presence, emotional content, and cultural dissemination. Nineteen-two papers have been identified through the PRISMA methodology, and a promising positive effect of sonic interaction on user experience in a virtual environment can be observed in various studies, notwithstanding a general lack of specific contributions on the use of sound rendering and audio spatialisation for improving such experiences. Moreover, this work identifies the main involved research areas and discusses the state-of-the-art best practices and case studies where sonic interactions may assume a central role. The final part suggests possible future directions and applications for more engaging and immersive storytelling in the cultural heritage domain.

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“…In the literature, few tools [216] exist for immersive analytics of visual media only. However, cultural heritage research can benefit from the auditory component.…”

Section: Immersive Analyticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of Audio in Immersive Storytelling: a Systematic Review in Cultural Heritage

Privitera,

Fontana,

Geronazzo

2024

Multimed Tools Appl

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“…SteamVR was chosen due to headset compatibility with the HTC Vive VR headset. VRTK was chosen due to its use in other research projects [100,147], and support for implementing VR interactions with little or no programming through prefab components. SteamVR assisted with interfacing the VR headset with Unity game engine through a plugin.…”

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Immersive visualization for ecosystem services analysis and trade-offs

Powley

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<p><strong>Changing land use to improve one ecosystem service can affect other ecosystem services, so a potential land use change should be analysed before implementation. Land use analysts using existing ecosystem services modelling software, and users of the results of ecosystem services analysis identified problems with modelling tools applied to ecosystem services analysis. A User Centred Design process was adopted in this study, to design and implement an immersive Virtual Reality (VR) visualization system, Immersive ESS Visualizer. Immersive ESS Visualizer was designed, and implemented for users of differing levels of geospatial expertise, to assist with visualization and analysis of ecosystem services data. Features include multiple handheld maps, a scenario map, layers, filters, zoom, and navigation by gliding. Handheld maps allowed users to create layouts with multiple maps for comparison. A user study was performed to compare the effectiveness of Immersive ESS Visualizer to existing media, a 2D screen and paper maps. The user study investigated the effectiveness of Immersive ESS Visualizer for communication to a stakeholder. The most highly ranked features of Immersive ESS Visualizer included the file list, tab menus, handheld map, and zoom buttons. The study found that Zoom assisted participants with their comparison of data in VR, Immersive ESS Visualizer was good for inspecting hillshade, placing maps side-by-side was useful for comparing data, and participants adopted 3D positioning techniques to arrange maps to assist their analysis. Participant expertise was classified based on VR expertise, data expertise, map expertise, location expertise, and spatial technology expertise. Participants with more VR expertise found Immersive ESS Visualizer more effective. Participants had positive responses to their experiences communicating with the researcher while using VR, the zoom feature. The laser pointer and the facilitator’s 2D screen assisted participants to communicate while in the VR HMD. Immersive ESS Visualizer could potentially be extended to other datasets, the features available could be extended into a multi-user system.</strong></p>

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“…• "DarkSky Halos" (Figure 2.3d) is an IA collaborative system that uses a CAVE environment to explore large scale cosmological simulation data where, for example, researchers could study aspects from dark matter formation (HANULA et al, 2019). Other examples of fields exploring IA applications are biology, neuroscience, epidemiology, ecology, crowd simulation, product engineering, archaeology, seismology, and cultural heritage (CZAUDERNA et al, 2018;CHANDLER;MORGAN;KUHLEN, 2018;FULMER et al, 2019;LAWTON et al, 2020;KOEBEL;AGOTAI;ÇÖLTEKIN, 2020).…”

Section: Immersive Analyticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Augusto Pedroso

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I want to thank my friends and colleagues for the support and friendship during this process. Among them, I would like to give a special acknowledgement to Eduardo Carrara, Rodolfo Tonoli, and Caluã Pataca which helped with their reviews, knowledge, or simply being there to listen. I want to thank my family for providing me support and love during my whole life. Without my parents efforts and sacrifices, I would not be able to achieve anything. I want to thank my wife, Bruna Panaggio, for her immense care and support along the way. From reviewing texts to supporting me during the hard times, I hope one day to pay back everything that she did to make my life easier, warmer and happier during the last years.

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Exploring Cultural Heritage Collections in Immersive Analytics: Challenges, Benefits, and a Case Study Using Virtual Reality

Cited by 4 publications

References 33 publications

The Role of Audio in Immersive Storytelling: a Systematic Review in Cultural Heritage

The Role of Audio in Immersive Storytelling: a Systematic Review in Cultural Heritage

Immersive visualization for ecosystem services analysis and trade-offs

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