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Sense-enabled mixed reality museum exhibitions

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VAST'07: Proceedings of the 8th International conference on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Intelligent Cultural Heritage

Pages 31 - 38

Published: 26 November 2007 Publication History

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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.

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Bekele MPierdicca RFrontoni EMalinverni EGain J(2018)A Survey of Augmented, Virtual, and Mixed Reality for Cultural HeritageJournal on Computing and Cultural Heritage 10.1145/314553411:2(1-36)Online publication date: 22-Mar-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3145534
Edwards MKelly JThibodeau MTsekeridou SCheok AGiannakis KKarigiannis J(2008)SydewynderProceedings of the 3rd international conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts10.1145/1413634.1413717(467-471)Online publication date: 10-Sep-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1413634.1413717

Sense-enabled mixed reality museum exhibitions

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VAST'07: Proceedings of the 8th International conference on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Intelligent Cultural Heritage

November 2007

140 pages

ISBN:9783905674019

Editors:
David Arnold
UK
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Franco Niccolucci
IT
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Alan Chalmers
UK

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EPOCH: EU IST NoE "EPOCH"
EUROGRAPHICS: The European Association for Computer Graphics

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Bekele MPierdicca RFrontoni EMalinverni EGain J(2018)A Survey of Augmented, Virtual, and Mixed Reality for Cultural HeritageJournal on Computing and Cultural Heritage 10.1145/314553411:2(1-36)Online publication date: 22-Mar-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3145534
Edwards MKelly JThibodeau MTsekeridou SCheok AGiannakis KKarigiannis J(2008)SydewynderProceedings of the 3rd international conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts10.1145/1413634.1413717(467-471)Online publication date: 10-Sep-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1413634.1413717

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