An integrated VR/AR framework for user-centric interactive experience of cultural heritage: The ArkaeVision project

Bozzelli, Guido; Raia, Antonio; Ricciardi, Stefano; Nino, Maurizio De; Barile, Nicola; Perrella, Marco; Tramontano, Marco; Pagano, Alfonsina; Palombini, Augusto

doi:10.1016/j.daach.2019.e00124

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“…User performance: VR technology is designed to enable high level of immersion within users during their experiences that create sense of presence within the virtual world [33]. However, there are still several challenges identified within research documents.…”

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Virtual Reality Usability and Accessibility for Cultural Heritage Practices: Challenges Mapping and Recommendations

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In recent years, virtual reality (VR) is at its maturity level for real practical exercises amongst many fields of studies, especially in the virtual walkthrough exploration system of cultural heritage (CH). However, this study remains scattered and limited. This work presents a systematic review that maps out the usability and accessibility issues that are challenging in using VR in CH. We identified 45 challenges that are mapped into five problem groups: system design, development process, technology, assessment process and knowledge transfer. This mapping is then used to propose 58 recommendations to improve the usability and accessibility of VR in CH that are categorized in three different recommendation groups namely, discovery and planning, design and development, and finally the assessment factors. This analysis identified the persistence in certain accessibility and usability problems such as there is a limit in navigating the view and space that constraint the users’ free movement and the navigation control is not ideal with the keyboard arrow button. This work is important because it provides an overview of usability and accessibility based challenges that are faced in applying, developing, deploying and assessing VR in the usage of digitalizing CH and proposed a great number of constructive recommendations to guide future studies. The main contribution of this paper is the mapping of usability and accessibility challenges into categories and the development of recommendations based on the identified problems.

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Virtual Reality Usability and Accessibility for Cultural Heritage Practices: Challenges Mapping and Recommendations

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“…ArkaeVision Archeo is a VR experience designed to engage users in a circular and interactive way, where it is possible to virtually visit the temple dedicated to Hera II in Paestum, in the first half of the 5th century BC (Bozzelli et. al 2019).…”

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Augmented Reality Experience for Inaccessible Areas in Museums

Germak

Salvo

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2021

Electronic Workshops in Computing

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In recent years, new innovations have been introduced into the cultural heritage sector, aimed at offering more engaging and accessible tours to the public. The article discusses the development process of the VirgilTell project, for the visit of inaccessible places in the Racconigi Castle, one of the Savoy residences in Piedmont (Italy), by the UXD Team of Politecnico di Torino. The places assigned to the project are being restored and therefore excluded from the tour. The VirgilTell experience aims to include and make them accessible to visitors, through a virtual tour including multimedia content for the entertainment and involvement of the users. The visit has been realised through mixed techniques between VR and AR for the narration of the spaces in which the user takes part in a journey made of narratives by characters from the past and objects that no longer exist. The VirgilTell visit was also created with the aim of anticipating, in promotional terms, the physical visit to the museum spaces undergoing restoration, so as to attract visitors back inside once the work is finished.Design for heritage. Augmented reality. Human centered design. User experience design. Digital storytelling.

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“…The library develops a sustainable AR web application using "A-Frame" coding to allow patrons to access library information safely and effortlessly. 3D immersive environment primarily uses the ECS architecture 20 . The immersive environment scene comprises entity objects.…”

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Web based Augmented Reality for Information Delivery Services A Performance Study

Roy

Kanjilal

2021

DESIDOC Jl. Lib. Info. Technol.

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Augmented Reality (AR) is the overlapping of the real world and the virtual world. AR is an evolving technology, and its implementation opens up a new direction to multiple types of information access services rendered to the users. The digital library section of the central library IIT Kharagpur has a rich collection of several items like CD/DVD ROMs, Digital Scanners, and VR Devices. Library developed in-house WebAR programs using “ar.js” that support “three.js” and “A-Frame” for Augmented Reality rendering on the web. This study tried to evaluate web-based AR programs’ performance on mobile devices with low-end hardware configuration supporting WebGL and WebRTC. We conducted quantitative research to find the performance of the web-based AR applications using the four independent variables, namely frames per second (fps), request animation frame (raf), load time (lt), entity object (eo). The paper is also helpful to the academic librarians who think about implementing augmented reality library services with no cost involved. The AR-based information service is beneficial to library users with new COVID norms1, as the user does not need to touch anything to get the information. Instead, it gets into his/ her mobile device.

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An integrated VR/AR framework for user-centric interactive experience of cultural heritage: The ArkaeVision project

Cited by 88 publications

References 7 publications

Virtual Reality Usability and Accessibility for Cultural Heritage Practices: Challenges Mapping and Recommendations

Virtual Reality Usability and Accessibility for Cultural Heritage Practices: Challenges Mapping and Recommendations

Augmented Reality Experience for Inaccessible Areas in Museums

Web based Augmented Reality for Information Delivery Services A Performance Study

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