Interactive Multimedia System for Chinese Traditional Costumes

What Drives Users to Adopt a Digital Museum? A Case of Virtual Exhibition Hall of National Costume Museum

“…In digital costume museums, the traditional costumes are given vitality by technical means, which provides the possibility to protect and inherit the Chinese traditional costume culture. For example, Jiang proposed an interactive multimedia system of traditional Chinese costumes based on 3D virtual reality technology, which can fully display Chinese classical cheongsam's structural characteristics and help students learn cutting and sewing by themselves (Jiang et al, 2017). In 2016, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage issued a "Three-year Action Plan for 'Internet + Chinese Civilization'" to promote the construction of open sharing systems for cultural relics resources.…”

“…Second, information transmission forms should be further diversified. As an information dissemination system, the DCM's ultimate goal is maximizing the transmission of information to the public through the media (Jiang et al, 2017). The display mode of "picture + text + multimedia" adopted by traditional museums is too monotonous and boring.…”

“…In the past, museums exhibited precious clothing and textile collections under restricted protection. Using the old exhibition methods (such as physical static exhibitions and paper reports), visitors can only watch through the windows of the exhibits for a simple understanding of the learning process but lack interactive entertainment (Jiang et al, 2017). Therefore, the transmission of clothing culture is not ideal (Jiang et al, 2015).…”

“…Therefore, the transmission of clothing culture is not ideal (Jiang et al, 2015). With the development of mass media and virtual reality technology, the three-dimensional virtual presentation of "from reality to virtual reality and then back to reality" (Martin & Mauriello, 2013) and the new mode of clothing culture propagation of "traditional clothing enters mobile client" become popular (Jiang et al, 2017). Meanwhile, new human-computer interaction technology (Chen et al, 2015;Nakamura et al, 2013) has become an essential technical guarantee for the project.…”

“…In digital costume museums, most of the articles stay at the level of qualitative research, focusing on conceptual discussions, exhibition suggestions, technical realization, etc. (Jiang et al, 2013(Jiang et al, , 2017(Jiang et al, , 2019Kang et al, 2013Kang et al, , 2015Martin & Ko, 2009;Saiki & Robbins, 2008). In China, the construction of digital costume museum websites is far inferior to display platforms of porcelain, bronze ware, and other kinds of collections.…”