Sense-Enabled Mixed Reality Museum Exhibitions
Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: During the past few years museums and other cultural heritage institutions have started making use of handheld technologies to provide tourist guides to their visitors. For open-air sites, a number of experimental and commercial applications have been developed based on location-based guides. However, in museum environments static audiovisual guides are the dominant technologies used. In this paper, we present a novel pervasive mixed reality framework to a sensor network capturing ambient noise that can be used to create tangible cultural heritage exhibitions. Localisation of the visitors can be established in a hybrid manner based on machine vision and a wireless sensor network allowing visitors to interact naturally or with the help of sensors. In terms of interface design, a multimodal mixed reality visualisation domain allows for an audio-visual presentation of cultural heritage artefacts.
Authors: Liarokapis, Fotis, Newman, Robert M., Mount, Sarah, Goldsmith, Dan, Macan, Luis, Malone, Garry, Shuttleworth, James
Institutions: Coventry University, University of Wolverhampton
Language: English
Subfield: Museology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1541304948