scholarly journals Usability Evaluation of The Interactive 3D Virtual Reality Cultural Heritage Museum Display: Fountain of The Lions Software Application

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.28) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
J G. ◽  
Tromp . ◽  
A Wolff ◽  
J C. Torres ◽  
Hoang Thi My
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Task Analysis ◽  
Usability Evaluation ◽  
Heuristic Evaluation ◽  
Software Application ◽  
Museum Visitors ◽  
Interactive 3D ◽  
Usability Research ◽  
Museum Display

In this usability evaluation of the Fountain of the Lions software application aimed to be used by museum visitors, the software is analysed using three established usability research methods: personas, a cognitive walkthrough (task analysis) with three participants, and an individual heuristic evaluation. Areas in which the software succeeds and areas which could use improvement are discussed based on the results of these analyses, including use of the methods. 

scholarly journals X-Reality Museums: Unifying the Virtual and Real World Towards Realistic Virtual Museums

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 338
Author(s):  
George Margetis ◽  
Konstantinos C. Apostolakis ◽  
Stavroula Ntoa ◽  
George Papagiannakis ◽  
Constantine Stephanidis
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Real World ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Mixed Reality ◽  
Virtual Agents ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Museum Visitors ◽  
Virtual Museums

Culture is a field that is currently entering a revolutionary phase, no longer being a privilege for the few, but expanding to new audiences who are urged to not only passively consume cultural heritage content, but actually participate and assimilate it on their own. In this context, museums have already embraced new technologies as part of their exhibitions, many of them featuring augmented or virtual reality artifacts. The presented work proposes the synthesis of augmented, virtual and mixed reality technologies to provide unified X-Reality experiences in realistic virtual museums, engaging visitors in an interactive and seamless fusion of physical and virtual worlds that will feature virtual agents exhibiting naturalistic behavior. Visitors will be able to interact with the virtual agents, as they would with real world counterparts. The envisioned approach is expected to not only provide refined experiences for museum visitors, but also achieve high quality entertainment combined with more effective knowledge acquisition.

scholarly journals ACTING IN DIGITAL CULTURAL HERITAGE APPLICATIONS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Selma Alispahić ◽  
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Selma Rizvić ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
3D Models ◽  
Digital Cultural Heritage ◽  
Head Mounted Displays ◽  
Total Immersion ◽  
Interactive 3D Models ◽  
Interactive 3D ◽  
Cultural Monuments

Digital technologies offer a new way to communicate and experience cultural heritage. It is now becoming possible to virtually recreate the original appearance of cultural monuments and enable the users to take virtual walks exploring interactive 3D models of objects preserved only in remains. Virtual Reality (VR) is a technology that transfers the users to a different place and time through devices called Head Mounted Displays (HMD) and enables a total immersion in another reality.

scholarly journals Usability Evaluation for Business Intelligence Applications: A User Support Perspective

2014 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chrisna Jooste ◽  
Judith Arnoldine Van Biljon ◽  
Jan Mentz
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mining ◽  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Usability Evaluation ◽  
Heuristic Evaluation ◽  
User Support ◽  
Software Usability ◽  
Usability Research ◽  
Usability Criteria

Business Intelligence (BI) applications provide business information to drive decision support. Usability is one of the factors determining the optimal use and eventual benefit derived from BI applications. The documented need for more BI usability research together with the practical necessity for BI evaluation guidelines in the mining industry provides the rationale for this study. The purpose of the study was to investigate the usability evaluation of BI applications in the context of a coal mining organization. The research is guided by the question: How can existing usability criteria be customized to evaluate the usability of BI applications. The research design included user observation, heuristic evaluation and a survey. Based on observations made during user support on a BI application used at a coal mining organization a log of usability issues was compiled. The usability issues extracted from this log was compared and contrasted with general usability criteria from literature to synthesize an initial set of BI usability evaluation criteria. These criteria were used as the basis for a heuristic evaluation of the BI application used at the coal mining organization. The same BI application was also evaluated using the Software Usability Measurement Inventory (SUMI) standardized questionnaire. The results from the two evaluations were triangulated and then compared with the BI user issues again to contextualize the findings and synthesize a validated and refined set of criteria. The main contribution of the study is the usability evaluation criteria for BI applications presented as guidelines. These guidelines deviate from existing evaluation guidelines in the emphasis on information architecture, learnability and operability.

scholarly journals Editorial for Special Issue “Virtual Reality and Its Application in Cultural Heritage”

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1530
Author(s):  
Christos Fidas ◽  
Stella Sylaiou
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
End Users ◽  
Special Issue

Recent advancements in Virtual Reality (VR) technologies provide new opportunities for Cultural Heritage (CH) organizations to attract, engage, and support end-users more efficiently and effectively [...]

Volumetric Video in Augmented Reality Applications for Museological Narratives

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Néill O’dwyer ◽  
Emin Zerman ◽  
Gareth W. Young ◽  
Aljosa Smolic ◽  
Siobhán Dunne ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Museum Visitors ◽  
The Public ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Nature Of Information ◽  
Live Action ◽  
Capture Technique

Cross-reality technologies are quickly establishing themselves as commonplace platforms for presenting objects of historical, scientific, artistic, and cultural interest to the public. In this space, augmented reality (AR) is notably successful in delivering cultural heritage applications, including architectural and environmental heritage reconstruction, exhibition data management and representation, storytelling, and exhibition curation. Generally, it has been observed that the nature of information delivery in applications created for narrating exhibitions tends to be informative and formal. Here we report on the assessment of a pilot scene for a prototype AR application that attempts to break this mold by employing a humorous and playful mode of communication. This bespoke AR experience harnessed the cutting-edge live-action capture technique of volumetric video to create a digital tour guide that playfully embellished the museological experience of the museum visitors. This applied research article consists of measuring, presenting, and discussing the appeal, interest, and ease of use of this ludic AR storytelling strategy mediated via AR technology in a cultural heritage context.

scholarly journals Revealing Hidden Local Cultural Heritage through a Serious Escape Game in Outdoor Settings

Information ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Stavroula Tzima ◽  
Georgios Styliaras ◽  
Athanasios Bassounas
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Local History ◽  
Educational Context ◽  
Virtual Reality Technology ◽  
The Real ◽  
Hybrid Type ◽  
Game Mechanics

Escape Rooms are presently considered a very popular social entertainment activity, with increasing popularity in education field, since they are considered capable of stimulating the interest of players/students and enhancing learning. The combined game mechanics have led to blended forms of Escape Rooms, the Serious Escape Games (SEGs) and the hybrid type of Escape Rooms that uses Augmented Reality (AR)/Virtual Reality technology, a type that is expected to be widely used in the future. In the current study, the MillSecret is presented, a multi-player Serious Escape Game about local cultural heritage, where the players must solve a riddle about the cultural asset of watermills. MillSecret uses AR technology and it was designed to be conducted in the real-physical environment and in an informal educational context. The paper describes the game, its implementation, the playing process, and its evaluation, which aimed to study the feasibility of game conduction in outdoor settings and the views and experience of players with the game, the local cultural heritage and local history. Evaluation results reveal, among other findings, a very positive first feedback from players that allows us to further evolve the development of the game.

11th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaology and Cultural Heritge: 8th Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage

2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 233-233
Author(s):  
Alessandro Artusi ◽  
Morwena Joly ◽  
Geneviève Lucet ◽  
Alejandro Ribes ◽  
Denis Pitzalis
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
International Symposium ◽  
11Th International Symposium

Interactive 3D modeling with virtual reality

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
International Symposium ◽  
3D Modeling ◽  
Fast Track ◽  
Electronic Imaging ◽  
Interactive 3D

Fast track article for IS&T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging 2021: Imaging and Multimedia Analytics in a Web and Mobile World 2021 proceedings.

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