i-Wall: A Low-Cost Interactive Wall for Enhancing Visitor Experience and Promoting Industrial Heritage in Museums

Gkiti, Christina; Varia, Eirini; Zikoudi, Chrysi; Kirmanidou, Athina; Kyriakati, Io; Vosinakis, Spyros; Gavalas, Damianos; Stavrakis, Modestos; Koutsabasis, Panayiotis

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-01762-0_8

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“…Therefore, as opposed to Chios Mastic and Santorini Tomato Museums, there is no production line or workers to be represented. Gkiti et al [6] note that storytelling and XR were also pivotal aspects of their approach. They call the i-Wall the central element, the matrix, and the locus of the ICT-supported interactive experience.…”

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Evaluating the Impact of XR on User Experience in the Tomato Industrial Museum “D. Nomikos”

Sylaiou,

Dafiotis,

Fidas

et al. 2024

Heritage

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This study presents the background and the evaluation of integrating eXtended Reality (XR) in the permanent exhibition at the Tomato Industrial Museum “D. Nomikos”. This paper firstly provides the context of this study by outlining the methodological, technological, and museological approaches undertaken to integrate XR in a quest to enhance visitors’ meaningful engagement with the industrial heritage-related exhibition. Storytelling and narration are key elements of the museum’s museological design through audio tours and interactive AR-based visualization n of the machinery’s role and function. This paper presents and discusses the design of the evaluation methodology employed in the context of pertinent methods and approaches used in related research. This study investigates the effectiveness of XR for audience engagement and the added value that such technologies offer to the user experience as well as possible improvements. The main method adopted for gathering quantitative data is the User Experience Questionnaire (UEQ), and for qualitative data, through semi-structured interviews. Moreover, the findings are analyzed, interpreted, and discussed. Based on a case study, this paper offers a broader discussion of the challenges and prospects connected to the quest of employing emerging technologies and assessing their impact on visitors’ museum experience, reaching conclusions for future directions in the field.

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Section: Background and Related Work 21 Related Case Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluating the Impact of XR on User Experience in the Tomato Industrial Museum “D. Nomikos”

Sylaiou,

Dafiotis,

Fidas

et al. 2024

Heritage

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“…Therefore, as opposed to Chios Mastic and Santorini Tomato Museums, there was no production line or workers to be represented. As Gkiti et al [6] note, storytelling and XR were also pivotal aspects of their approach. They call i-Wall the central element, the matrix, and the locus of the ICT-supported interactive experience.…”

Section: Related Case Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluating XR Museum Experiences and Some Issues for Consideration

Sylaiou,

Dafiotis,

Fidas

et al. 2024

Preprint

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The study presents the evaluation of integrating Extended Reality applications in situ to foster visitors' experience at the Tomato Industrial Museum "D. Nomikos". This paper firstly provides an outline of the methodological, technological, and museological approaches undertaken to integrate XR in a quest to enhance visitors’ meaningful engagement with the industrial heritage-related exhibition. Storytelling and narration are key elements of the museums’ museological design [1] through audio tours and interactive AR-based visualization of the machinery’s role as well as internal function. This paper presents and discusses the evaluation findings. We adopted the User Experience Questionnaire method as the main vehicle for gathering quantitative data and analyzing the results with the use of corresponding metrics and benchmarks embedded in this evaluation tool. Moreover, we conducted semi-structured interviews and combined the qualitative data accrued in the form of accounts, suggestions, and remarks to reach more rich and dependable conclusions. This paper aims to offer both an instance of practice to the research community and a broader discussion of the challenges and prospects connected to the quest of employing emerging technologies and assessing their impact on visitors’ museum experience.

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“…For cultural applications (e.g., augmenting a museum's content), an AR system supports items on display by providing a supplementary explanation in different forms; in [15], the authors placed the projection unit behind a large screen to allow museum visitors to manipulate a detailed 3D model using indirect touch control. A customized and affordable wall where direct touch triggers the display of augmented visual material providing historical information was presented in [16]. In both examples of museum AR systems, the interaction is confined to a single place and servers one interaction purpose.…”

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“…Interactive technology can be seen in modern museum exhibitions [13,14], where SAR is used widely with different implementation technologies [15,16]. Considering that a museum environment contains several exhibition halls where interactive content needs to be displayed in different locations, using many fixed or steerable projection-based AR could be a good solution.…”

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A UWB-Driven Self-Actuated Projector Platform for Interactive Augmented Reality Applications

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With the rapid development of interactive technology, creating systems that allow users to define their interactive envelope freely and provide multi-interactive modalities is important to build up an intuitive interactive space. We present an indoor interactive system where a human can customize and interact through a projected screen utilizing the surrounding surfaces. An ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless sensor network was used to assist human-centered interaction design and navigate the self-actuated projector platform. We developed a UWB-based calibration algorithm to facilitate the interaction with the customized projected screens, where a hand-held input device was designed to perform mid-air interactive functions. Sixteen participants were recruited to evaluate the system performance. A prototype level implementation was tested inside a simulated museum environment, where a self-actuated projector provides interactive explanatory content for the on-display artifacts under the user’s command. Our results depict the applicability to designate the interactive screen efficiently indoors and interact with the augmented content with reasonable accuracy and relatively low workload. Our findings also provide valuable user experience information regarding the design of mobile and projection-based augmented reality systems, with the ability to overcome the limitations of other conventional techniques.

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i-Wall: A Low-Cost Interactive Wall for Enhancing Visitor Experience and Promoting Industrial Heritage in Museums

Cited by 13 publications

References 16 publications

Evaluating the Impact of XR on User Experience in the Tomato Industrial Museum “D. Nomikos”

Evaluating the Impact of XR on User Experience in the Tomato Industrial Museum “D. Nomikos”

Evaluating XR Museum Experiences and Some Issues for Consideration

A UWB-Driven Self-Actuated Projector Platform for Interactive Augmented Reality Applications

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