ʔeləw’k’w– Belongings: A Tangible Interface for Intangible Cultural Heritage

Muntean, Reese; Hennessy, Kate; Antle, Alissa N.; Rowley, Susan; Wilson, Jordan; Matkin, Brendan; Eckersley, Rachael; Tan, Perry; Wakkary, Ron

doi:10.14236/ewic/eva2015.41

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“…The smart replicas contain Near-Field-Communication (NFC) tags that trigger visual and audio content at specific interactive cases throughout the exhibition. A similar approach can be found in "Belongings" [12]-a tangible interface for cultural heritage consisting of a tabletop application using Microsoft PixelSense, a device that is capable of detecting objects on top of it. When users place a replica of one of the Musqueam artefacts on the table, information about the artefact appears on the table.…”

Section: Tangible User Interfaces In Cultural Heritagementioning

confidence: 99%

Spectare: Re-Designing a Stereoscope for a Cultural Heritage XR Experience

Taipina

Cardoso

2022

Electronics

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Stereoscopic photography was one of the main forms of visual communication in the second half of the 19th century. The experience of viewing stereoscopic photographs using stereoscopes is described as evoking memories of the past, feelings of presence in the depicted scenes, but also fun and magical experiences. The fact that using these devices generates these impactful experiences is relevant for Cultural Heritage (CH) where we want visitors to have memorable experiences. Since classic stereoscopes are similar to contemporary smartphone-based Virtual Reality (VR) viewers, we questioned how the original viewing experience could be re-imagined to take advantage of current technologies. We have designed a new smartphone-based VR device—Spectare—targeted towards experiencing CH content (2D or 360° photos or videos, soundscapes, or other immersive content), while still maintaining a user experience close to the original. In this paper, we describe the design process and operation of the Spectare device. We also report on an usability evaluation with 20 participants and on the field testing where we applied the device to the visualization of CH content resulting from a digital reconstruction of the monastery of Santa Cruz in Coimbra, Portugal. The evaluations uncovered issues with the smartphone support piece of the device, but generally its usage was classified with a high usability score. Participants also classified the device as innovative, creative, impressive, fun.

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Section: Tangible User Interfaces In Cultural Heritagementioning

confidence: 99%

Spectare: Re-Designing a Stereoscope for a Cultural Heritage XR Experience

Taipina

Cardoso

2022

Electronics

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“…There are many examples of successful usage of tangible interfaces within museums, which quality in pragmatic and hedonic aspects was proven in practice [9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. Wide range of technologies is utilized while building cyber-physical exhibits, from programmable microcontrollers with custom developed circuits (like in [14,15]) to complicated prefabricated touch-and display surfaces (like in [11,12]).…”

Section: Cyber-physical Museum Exhibits Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The modern technologies are just a toolset to embody this idea. But analyzing the ways the most notable ideas were implemented (like, for example, the results obtained by the authors of [9][10][11][12][13][14][15]) we can point out the lack of standards and the absence of common methodology for creating museum CPS.…”

Section: Cyber-physical Museum Exhibits Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cyber-Physical Museum Exhibits Based on Additive Technologies, Tangible Interfaces and Scientific Visualization

Ryabinin¹,

Kolesnik²,

Akhtamzyan³

et al. 2019

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This paper is devoted to the new methods of organizing interactive museum exhibits by means of additive technologies, programmable microelectronics and multimedia. Traditionally museum exhibition is distanced from the visitor appearing just as a visual image. But new trend is to let the visitor inside the exhibition, providing different forms of interactions. Modern museums constantly search for the new ways of presenting cultural and natural heritage taking into account that exhibitions should be at the same time scientifically accurate, attractive, memorable and, ideally, accessible for the wide audience including disabled people. In this regard, tangible user interfaces based on the Internet of Things and combined with the scientific visualization build up very promising set of technologies that brings to live cyberphysical museum exhibits. These exhibits are an alloy of physical museum items with virtual multimedia content, providing the visitor a unique experience of interactivity. The key feature of cyber-physical exhibits is their tangibility, whereby they become accessible for visually impaired people and deliver much more information for the regular visitors. There are a lot of successful attempts to build cyber-physical exhibits within the museum space. However, there is a lack of methodological basis for this, as well as the lack of highlevel tools to seamlessly integrate related technologies into the existing museum infrastructure. In this paper we propose using ontology-driven adaptive multiplatform scientific visualization system SciVi as a software basis for cyber-physical museum exhibits. This system was previously successfully used in solving problems related to steering hardware and software solvers in different application domains, monitoring lightweight robotics systems and supporting custom hardware human-machine interfaces. So, it contains necessary mechanisms to adapt to the third-party digital infrastructure (including the museum one) and build all the required middleware and visualizers within it. We tested our approach by developing two cyber physical exhibits: tangible bonobo skull in the State Darwin Museum (Moscow) and tangible titanophone skulls in the Museum of Permian Antiquities (Perm). Bonobo exhibit appears to be a custom joystick in a form of corresponding skull to steer the Sketchfab-rendered 3D model of bonobo monkey head. Titanophone exhibit allows visitors to discover the age variability of titanophone synapsid in an interactive way.

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“…Belongings is an interactive tangible table top display developed to explore the intangible cultural heritage and the belongings as a cultural knowledge, using replicas of unearthed Musqueam objects, as well as other elements used by the community nowadays. During the exhibition c̓ əsnaʔəm: the city before the city, through the installation, visitors could learn about ancient knowledge, culture and technology, by interacting with the material objects, which according to Muntean et al (2015) encouraged interactions between visitors, the sharing of information and informal discussion about the themes explored. This project was a partnership between the Museum of Vancouver, the Museum of Anthropology, the Musqueam Indian Band and the University of Waterloo.…”

Section: Tangible User Interfacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interactive Technologies in Museums

Vaz

Fernandes

Veiga

2018

Advances in Hospitality, Tourism, and the Services Industry

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With the constant development of digital means of entertainment – that are easily made available to people and, in most cases, can be used anywhere – nowadays, a visit to a museum have to surround publics with unexpected and interactive experiences, in order to capture their attention and make them want to go to these places, in addition to continue to communicate their collections and promote society education. In this regard, it was discussed in this chapter the actual panorama of interactive technologies used in museums exhibitions worldwide, and there are discussed how these institutions are designing digital installations and utilizing virtual media to enhance the visitors' experience, promoting positive relations between them and their publics. The main conclusion and reflection of the chapter is based on how this new era of technology is allowing increasing physical, cognitive and sensory accessibility, and transforms this kind of experience for disabled publics.

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ʔeləw’k’w– Belongings: A Tangible Interface for Intangible Cultural Heritage

Cited by 14 publications

References 3 publications

Spectare: Re-Designing a Stereoscope for a Cultural Heritage XR Experience

Spectare: Re-Designing a Stereoscope for a Cultural Heritage XR Experience

Cyber-Physical Museum Exhibits Based on Additive Technologies, Tangible Interfaces and Scientific Visualization

Interactive Technologies in Museums

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