Storytelling Platform for Interactive Digital Content in Virtual Museum

Abstract

Virtual Reality (VR) generates realistic visualization and sensation applied to various practises. Virtual Museum (VM) is a use case where VR may be applied to convince museum visitors to participate with a story told through digital content. Recently, immersive VR technologies are intensively developed providing a lot of devices which support interactive VM application. In a development of interactive VM, interaction is always depending on the selected device. Then content is tuned to fit specific device capacity; major development must be addressed again whenever the virtual environment is adapted to a new device. This paper proposed a storytelling platform to assist interactive content design which is device independent. Our framework provides high-level abstraction of story and interaction which is then translated to any low-level device. Storytelling model and interaction model are introduced to create a common language for story making. It works with a viewer, an asset manager, an event editor and a timeline to achieve virtual environments organization and interaction assignment. An example of interactive content design on our platform is presented to demonstrate the development process which can be applied to collaborative interactive content designing in the future work.

User Experience Perspectives on the Application of Interactivity Design Based on Sensor Networks in Digital Museum Product Display

“…The application of interactive design in museum exhibition design gives a clear advantage over traditional museum exhibitions. In digital museums, information technology is a means to provide people with different visiting experiences through flexible use of these technologies [9]. There are many types of these technologies, such as virtual reality, augmented reality, infrared sensing and sound control technology, and holographic projection technology.…”

La importancia de los recursos visuales digitales en la comunicación de la Arqueología y el Patrimonio Cultural

“…La narratividad (storytelling) en este contexto, se entiende como la forma en que se construye el espacio virtual, se diagraman los recorridos, se emplean los recursos audiovisuales y las posibilidades que tiene el usuario de interactuar con el contenido. Sin embargo, en líneas generales, refiere a la construcción de un guion atractivo que haga que los usuarios se sientan parte, se involucren en la historia y puedan entender con facilidad la intención y/o mensaje del creador (Chaowanan y Frédéric, 2021). A partir del uso de la narratividad aplicada a la comunicación del patrimonio, es posible que se generen emociones en el público al involucrarse con la historia narrada (Chaowanan y Fréderic, 2021).…”

“…En este sentido, el ciudadano puede vivenciar el patrimonio cultural sin entrar en contacto físico con él. Un ciudadano que es capaz de acceder y consumir información patrimonial se enriquece culturalmente e incrementa sus capacidades cognitivas participativas (Chaowanan y Frédéric, 2021). En consecuencia, un repositorio con estas características genera un espacio de diálogo enfocado en la comunicación científica, potencia su efectividad y extiende su alcance al hacer partícipe a toda la sociedad.…”