Mixed reality based interaction system for digital heritage

Bugalia, Nishant; Kumar, Subodh; Kalra, Prem Kumar; Choudhary, Shantanu

doi:10.1145/3013971.3014000

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“…The development of SensiMAR was focused in keeping it easy and simple for all types of potential users, always considering the user as the centre of the system, aiming to develop an application as user-friendly as possible. As the literature suggests, to build a simplistic user interface is essential to have the minimum stages as possible, to allow users to find it intuitive and engaging in order to successfully experiencing the system [68]. SensiMAR prototype was developed and tested with expert users at three moments of deployment.…”

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“…A multisensory AR system such as the proposed for the current research, considering the wide-ranging target group of potential users from CH sites, needs to be userfriendly. As literature suggests, to deploy a simplistic user interface is essential for the experience and system purpose, by having the minimum interactions possible, in order to allow users to find it intuitive and engaging [68].…”

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Development and Evaluation of an Outdoor Multisensory AR System for Cultural Heritage

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Enhancing tourist visits to cultural heritage sites by making use of mobile augmented reality has been a tendency in the last few years, presenting mainly audiovisual experiences. However, these explorations using only visuals and sounds, or narratives, do not allow users to be presented with, for example, a particular smell that can be important to feel engaged or to better understand the history of the site. This paper pursues the goal of creating an experience that puts the user in a scene planned to evoke several stimuli with SensiMAR prototype-a Multisensory Augmented Reality system that aims to be used in cultural heritage outdoors. When using SensiMAR, the user will be involved with visual reconstructions, surrounded by the soundscape of ancient times, and is exposed to a particular smell very common that time. Given the novelty of this proposal, ascertaining the usability of such a system was raised as a foremost demand. Thus, in addition to its development and implementation specifications, an experimental study was conducted to evaluate the usability of the system in end-users' perspective. The results obtained from random visitors of an archaeological site were analysed according to their sex, age, previous experience with augmented reality technology, and provided condition-audiovisual condition, and multisensory condition, with visual, audio, and smell stimuli. Results were collected from a total of 67 participants and show that this multisensory prototype achieved good usability results across all groups. No statistically differences were found, demonstrating good usability of the SensiMAR system regardless of their sex, age, previous experience with the technology or provided condition. INDEX TERMS Mobile Augmented Reality, Multisensory in Cultural Heritage, Usability of Multisensory AR Outdoors I. INTRODUCTION L ITERATURE supports the use of augmented reality (AR) for enhancing visitors' experiences in cultural heritage (CH) contexts for multifarious reasons. It has been demonstrated to evoke feelings of pleasure and arousal [1], to promote cultural heritage [2], to increase multicultural place meaning and openness to other cultures and traditions [3], to enable enjoyable informal learning [4] and, in addition to these social, epistemic and educational values, many other benefits came across such as economic, experiential, cultural and historical value [5]. Among the diverse AR solutions proposed and implemented in CH contexts, many of them are found as being mobile approaches, such as in urban heritage for tourism in Dublin, Ireland [6]; in travel guides

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“…the physical device to view the content) emerges as a core issue. This question of how to access audio-visual heritage in an engaging manner has been explored by Bugalia et al [4], who found that through hand gestures and projection mapping, users could physically interact with multimedia data in order to generate new interactive and semantic relationships to the digitized heritage. Here, immersion and physicality combine with interaction principles to enrich the overall impact of the installation, while the installation still primarily focuses on information dissemination.…”

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Digital Heritage: Bringing New Life to the Montreux Jazz Festival’s Audio-Visual Archives with Immersive Installations

Henchoz

Crank

2018

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To revive the Montreux Jazz Festival’s archival live-concert footage, three immersive installations were designed using three different principles of augmentation, physicality and interaction. The primary aim was to engage the user in a new relationship with digitized heritage. Audience observations indicated a strong emotional connection to the content, the artist and the crowd, as well as the development of new social interactions. Experimentation showed close interaction between the three principles, while the three installations suggested methodologies for reviving audio-visual archives.

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“…Another attempt uses mixed-reality based interaction system for digital heritage exploration [16]. Here the advantages of adding a scale 3D-printed replica of the architecture to the user interface was experienced.…”

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From Exploration of Virtual Replica to Cultural Immersion Through Natural Gestures

Diaconescu

Popovici

2018

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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We investigate in this work the potential of multimodal rendering for assisting users during culturally-related navigation and manipulation tasks inside virtual environments. We argue that natural gestures play an important role for engaging users in experiencing the cultural dimension of a given environment. To this end, we propose an open system for multiuser visualization and interaction that enables users to employ natural gestures. We explored different configurations and controls in order to achieve the most accurate and natural user experience. One being switching between the navigation and manipulation mode based on distance and orientation towards different points of interest and the other being based on interacting with a virtual UI used for switching between the two modes. We also implemented both a single-user and a multiuser version. The singleuser version having a normal, computer monitor based, point of view is better for a more accurate and detailed viewing experience. Also, in this version the user would be wearing the Myo armband and also using the Leap Motion for a more immersed experience. The multiuser version is based on a holographic pyramid which has two user perspectives, one of the Myo user and the other being the Leap Motion user's, and two for the spectators' point of view. Finally, we discuss findings on the users' perceptions of experienced cultural immersion.

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Mixed reality based interaction system for digital heritage

Cited by 17 publications

References 18 publications

Development and Evaluation of an Outdoor Multisensory AR System for Cultural Heritage

Development and Evaluation of an Outdoor Multisensory AR System for Cultural Heritage

Digital Heritage: Bringing New Life to the Montreux Jazz Festival’s Audio-Visual Archives with Immersive Installations

From Exploration of Virtual Replica to Cultural Immersion Through Natural Gestures

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