Connected Virtual Experiences for Small and Less Visible Museum Artefacts

This paper summarises a programme of research motivated by the challenge of achieving engaging 3D virtual experiences for small heritage artefacts, the sorts of artefacts that mare difficult to display and may be easily overlooked in museum settings. The challenges are i) a lack of easy-to-use, low-cost solutions for acquiring all around, textured 3D models of small form-factor objects and ii) the inherent challenge of achieving engaging and connected virtual experiences for artefacts that are not visibly striking.

The paper summarises the research challenges and outlines the research case study - a virtual reality experience for ‘cuneiform tablets’, ancient written records impressed on handheld clay ‘tablets’.

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Richard Rhodes

Sandra Woolley

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Publication date: July 2022

Publication date (Print): July 2022

Pages: 1-2

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[0001]School of Computing and Mathematics,

Keele University, UK

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2022.60

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Conference name: 35th International BCS Human-Computer Interaction Conference

Conference acronym: HCI2022

Conference number: 35

Conference location: Keele, Staffordshire

Conference date: July 11th to 13th, 2022

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Towards a Human-Centred Digital Society

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[1] Ashtari, N., Bunt, A., McGrenere, J., Nebeling, M., and Chilana, P. K. Creating augmented and virtual reality applications: Current practices, challenges, and opportunities. 2020 CHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1–13, 2020.

[2] British Museum Library of Ashurbanipal. Library of Ashurbanipal. Available at sketchfab.com, 2017.

[3] Champion. E and Rahaman. E. 3D digital heritage models as sustainable scholarly resources. Sustainability, 11(8):2425, 2019.

[4] Champion. E and Rahaman. E. Survey of 3D digital heritage repositories and platforms. Virtual Archaeology Review, 11(23):1–15, 2020.

[5] Collins, T., Woolley, S., Gehlken, E., and Ch’ng, E. Computational aspects of model acquisition and join geometry for the virtual reconstruction of the Atrahasis cuneiform tablet. In 2017 23rd International Conference on Virtual System & Multimedia (VSMM), pp. 1–6. IEEE, 2017.

[6] Collins, T., Woolley,S. I., Gehlken, E., and Ch’ng, E. Automated low cost photogrammetric acquisition of 3D models from small form-factor artefacts. Electronics, 8(12):1441, 2019.

[7] Jung. T, Claudia tom Dieck. M, Lee. H, and Chung. N. Effects of virtual reality and augmented reality on visitor experiences in museum. Information and communication technologies in tourism 2016, pp. 621–635. Springer, 2016.

[8] Pietroszek. K, Agraraharja. Z, and Eckhardt. C. The royal game of Ur: Virtual reality prototype of the board game played in ancient Mesopotamia. IEEE Conf. Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, pp. 647–648. IEEE, 2021.

[9] Sebar. L. E, Grassini. S, Parvis. M, and Lombardo. L. A low-cost automatic acquisition system for photogrammetry. IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Tech. Conf., pp. 1–6. IEEE, 2021.

[10] VCTR 2022. 3D cuneiform gallery. Available at https://virtualcuneiform.org/gallery.html and https://virtualcuneiform.org/tellohModels.html

[11] Woolley. S, Collins. T, Rhodes. R, Polack. F. Museums of the future: Heritage experiences in the reality-virtuality continuum. In BCS Human-Computer Interaction Conference, Embodiment of Things Workshop, 2021.

[12] Woolley, S., Mitchell, J., Collins, T., Rhodes, R., Rukasha, T,, Gehlken, E., Ch’ng, E., and Cooke, A. Virtual museum ‘takeouts’ and DIY exhibitions – augmented reality apps for scholarship, citizen science and public engagement. In Euro-Mediterranean Conference, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73043-7 27, pp. 323–333. Springer, 2020.

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