An Approach to Facilitate Visitors’ Engagement with Contemporary Art in a Virtual Museum

Tsita, Christina; Georgiadis, Charalabos; Zampeti, Maria; Papavergou, Evi; Tsiara, Syrago; Pedefoudas, Alexandros; Kehagias, Dionysios

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-20253-7_17

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“…The activity types are presented in Section 3.1. Additionally, for the 2gether VR museum, three interactivity levels were defined (low, medium and high) depending on the amount of engagement that is needed by the user in the available activity types [18]. Another important factor considered was a sense of control.…”

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“…The aim is to allow the user to interact with the artworks and focus on recognizing the abstract or cubistic human forms present in the artworks by understanding the different shapes, curves, lines, colors, shading and lighting and how they synthesize the overall picture. The hands-on activity depends on the artwork, and the task can be to solve a 3D puzzle of a 2D artwork or to move/synthesize parts of a 3D artwork [18]. The intended level of entertainment for the 2gether VR museum is not the level that one would seek in a game but rather lower.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Based on the team's previous work, we briefly describe the design process to explain how the proposed conceptual model was applied to the case of the 2gether VR application [18]. The conceptual model provides decision points that can support curators in expanding their curatorship in VR exhibitions.…”

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“…More specifically, VM visitors can move freely in the virtual environment, using teleportation to avoid motion sickness, with no limitations to where they can go within the virtual space. Furthermore, the users have the ability to interact with the exhibits, utilizing the capabilities of VR, with activity types that provide different levels of interactivity and that facilitate learning [18]. The presented VR museum also focused on the rigorous representation of the CH objects in the exhibition.…”

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A Virtual Reality Museum to Reinforce the Interpretation of Contemporary Art and Increase the Educational Value of User Experience

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The cultural heritage sector increasingly integrates augmented and virtual reality (VR) solutions to meet dissemination and interpretation needs for its collections. As research in the field grows, the required entertainment and learning impacts of such applications are rising. This study presents a VR museum that aims to facilitate an understanding of cultural heritage. More specifically, an exhibition was designed, curated and developed in a VR environment based on a framework that encourages the public’s interaction with the artworks and experiential learning through activities that utilize VR functionalities in a meaningful way. This framework was applied in a contemporary art museum where the description of artistic concepts is not always obvious to the general public due to the abstract forms of the artworks or the particularities of different artistic movements. This paper focuses on the application development and three user experience evaluations (museum experts, technical experts and general audience). The results were positive regarding the perceived sense of control, usability and the feelings of the user, including their sense of entertainment. Additionally, the participants valued the educational value of the developed activity types and their usefulness. Moreover, the users were interested in exploring the cultural heritage content available in the exhibition, and they would suggest the application to colleagues or friends.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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