Virtual Museum ‘Takeouts’ and DIY Exhibitions–Augmented Reality Apps for Scholarship, Citizen Science and Public Engagement

Woolley, Sandra; Mitchell, James; Collins, Tim; Rhodes, Richard; Rukasha, Tendai; Gehlken, Erlend; Ch’ng, Eugene; Cooke, Ashley

Abstract

This paper presents an Augmented Reality (AR) project for the curation of virtual museum ‘takeouts’ and DIY exhibitions. The project’s outputs include novel AR app technology demonstrators to support co-design with museum users and stakeholders - the goal being to create useful and easy-to-use AR apps for scholars, citizen scientists and the interested public.

The apps were designed for users to create, display, animate and interact with exhibitions of selected 3D artefacts that could, for example, reflect academic specialisms for sharing with fellow researchers, support curators in exhibition planning or enable friends and students to share eclectic favourites from museum visits. The overarching project ambition was to create AR apps to support research, engagement and education, and to enable interactive and personalized visualizations of individual artefacts as well as reconstructed forms. As presented in the paper, these forms are exemplified in the AR apps with 3D models of a cuneiform envelope and its tablet contents, viewable either as i) separate artefacts or ii) in their reconstructed enveloped form, with the AR apps enabling animated opening and ‘X-ray views’ of the contents within. In this way, the apps can enable users to visualize individual objects and reconstructions that could, for example, incorporate artefacts held in different museums.

Citation

Woolley, S., Mitchell, J., Collins, T., Rhodes, R., Rukasha, T., Gehlken, E., …Cooke, A. (2021). Virtual Museum ‘Takeouts’ and DIY Exhibitions–Augmented Reality Apps for Scholarship, Citizen Science and Public Engagement. In Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI (LNISA). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73043-7_27

• Conference Name: 8th International Conference, EuroMed 2020 - Virtual
• Start Date: Nov 2, 2020
• End Date: Nov 5, 2020
• Acceptance Date: Apr 14, 2021
• Online Publication Date: Apr 14, 2021
• Publication Date: 2021
• Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science - Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI (LNISA)
• Book Title: Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI (LNISA)
• ISBN: 978-3-030-73042-0
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73043-7_27
• Keywords: Augmented reality; Digital heritage; Virtual reconstruction
• Publisher URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-73043-7_27