NICH: A preliminary theoretical study on natural interaction applied to cultural heritage contexts

Pescarin, Sofia; Pietroni, Eva; Rescic, Leonardo; Omar, Karim; Wallergård, Mattias; Rufa, Claudio

doi:10.1109/digitalheritage.2013.6743760

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“…From these studies, the cultural heritage sector will take some benefits. We are also involved in the definition of a digital protocol oriented to collect, archive, and analyze gestures performed by people from different countries and cultures in order to improve the gestures grammars for interacting in VR environments [Pescarin et al 2013]. It is necessary to identify movements and gestures that are as intuitive as possible and similar to those that we normally perform to relate with the outside world, taking in consideration the limits of technology.…”

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Interacting with Virtual Reconstructions in Museums

Pietroni

Adami

2014

J. Comput. Cult. Herit.

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Starting from our experience in this domain, we discuss some fundamental concepts about the potentialities of the virtual reconstructions of cultural sites inside museums, with a specific focus on the communication needs, the design, the combination of media, the interaction interfaces, and the embodiment. We conceive a virtual reconstruction as a digital ecosystem, whose main peculiarities are (1) 3D reconstruction, (2) inclusivity, and (3) interactivity. A virtual reconstruction, in a wide sense, should integrate different levels of visualization, both realistic and symbolic; 3D models; metadata; storytelling; behaviors; and tools of visualization and interaction, in order to "reconstruct" and communicate a cultural context, an ecosystem where all the information is integrated. Despite the great advancements of the last years in the digitization process, computer graphics techniques, and archiving strategies, a basic limit of most of virtual museums is that they do not fire up the attention and the involvement of the public: they lack stimulating activities for visitors, narratives metaphors, and emotional impact. The interaction interfaces are not always simple to understand and to control in a few minutes, and they can generate a sense of frustration that causes users to abandon the application after a short and superficial approach. No gap should exist between knowledge and communication. But how can we translate the complexity of the knowledge in appealing to users and into simple applications that fit with the public's need? This article focuses on some communication rules and criteria that are often considered of minor importance by the researchers working in the field of digital cultural heritage but that are really essential to cultural transmission, especially inside museums. We believe that a stronger collaboration between research institutions and museums and among different disciplines would be recommended. Given this premise, we present the Etruscanning EU project, developed in 2011-2013, focused on the virtual reconstruction of two important Etruscan tombs of the Orientalizing period: the Regolini-Galassi tomb in Cerveteri and the tomb n.5 of Monte Michele in Veii.

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“…Some pioneering experiences in the domain of gesture-based interaction in heritage VR environments have been done in the last 3 years by CNR ITABC [Pietroni et al 2012a[Pietroni et al , 2012bPescarin et al 2013]. …”

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Interacting with Virtual Reconstructions in Museums

Pietroni

Adami

2014

J. Comput. Cult. Herit.

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“…A lack of standardized gesture mechanisms such as body movement restriction and variation range of postures is also another challenge. Some user needs an assistant to guide them as being unfamiliar with system controls and requires some time to acquire [15,16]. These subsequently affect the tracking accuracy fail to recognize fast hand gesture movement or large blockage area mainly due to interaction malfunction [17,18].…”

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“…Tracking: Aside from the traditional technology of computing that enables interactivity between human and machines, the technology of VR system also supports ranges of tracking devices that can track either the user's whole-body movement or specific parts of the body movement, which allows user to interact with the system. Imitating users' physical movement can enhance the level of immersion and sense of presence during UX [16]. Yet, the technicality of the system presented various challenges [30] With the current state of technology innovation, most researchers are concerned on implementing with higher-end machines to work more intelligently.…”

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Virtual Reality Usability and Accessibility for Cultural Heritage Practices: Challenges Mapping and Recommendations

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In recent years, virtual reality (VR) is at its maturity level for real practical exercises amongst many fields of studies, especially in the virtual walkthrough exploration system of cultural heritage (CH). However, this study remains scattered and limited. This work presents a systematic review that maps out the usability and accessibility issues that are challenging in using VR in CH. We identified 45 challenges that are mapped into five problem groups: system design, development process, technology, assessment process and knowledge transfer. This mapping is then used to propose 58 recommendations to improve the usability and accessibility of VR in CH that are categorized in three different recommendation groups namely, discovery and planning, design and development, and finally the assessment factors. This analysis identified the persistence in certain accessibility and usability problems such as there is a limit in navigating the view and space that constraint the users’ free movement and the navigation control is not ideal with the keyboard arrow button. This work is important because it provides an overview of usability and accessibility based challenges that are faced in applying, developing, deploying and assessing VR in the usage of digitalizing CH and proposed a great number of constructive recommendations to guide future studies. The main contribution of this paper is the mapping of usability and accessibility challenges into categories and the development of recommendations based on the identified problems.

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“…Digital Heritage is a domain that comprehends several different research fields and disciplines, from museography to computer graphics, from archaeology to design, from art history to engineering, from archives to statistics, etc. It is therefore a general term, which includes many ICT topics and heritage themes, and in most cases most of nowadays research lays in the overlapping and interconnection among them" [11] (p. 1).…”

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Augmented Reality for Historical Storytelling. The INCIPICT Project for the Reconstruction of Tangible and Intangible Image of L’Aquila Historical Centre

Brusaporci

Ruggieri

Sicuranza

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the International and Interdisciplinary Conference IMMAGINI? Brixen, Italy, 27–28 November 2017.

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Abstract:The urban landscape of the city of L'Aquila has undergone profound changes because of the 2009 earthquake. In particular, there has been a gap between the tangible immanence of places, outcome of history that brought them to the present, and the dimension of the intangible as the intersection between memory and everyday life. In this context, applications of augmented reality offer themselves as an instrument of intersection between history and memory. Augmented reality becomes a complex storytelling tool, where the balance between the authoritative aspect of history and the participative re-meaning of urban sites can be summarized.

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NICH: A preliminary theoretical study on natural interaction applied to cultural heritage contexts

Cited by 12 publications

References 18 publications

Interacting with Virtual Reconstructions in Museums

Interacting with Virtual Reconstructions in Museums

Virtual Reality Usability and Accessibility for Cultural Heritage Practices: Challenges Mapping and Recommendations

Augmented Reality for Historical Storytelling. The INCIPICT Project for the Reconstruction of Tangible and Intangible Image of L’Aquila Historical Centre

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