A virtual museum installation for virtual time travel
Abstract
This work discusses the methodology for the design, development and deployment of a virtual 19th-century Fish Curing Yard as an immersive museum installation. The museum building now occupies the same space where the curing yard was over 100 years prior, hence the deployment of a virtual reconstruction of the curing yard in a game engine enables the museum visitors to explore the virtual world from equivalent vantage points in the real world. The project methodology achieves the goal of maximising user experience for visitors while minimising cost for the museum, and focus group evaluations of the system revealed the success of the interaction-free design with snackable content. A major implication of the ndings is that museums can provide compelling and informative experiences that enable visitors to travel back in time with minimal interaction and relatively low cost systems.
Citation
Fabola , A E , Kennedy , S E , Miller , A H D , Oliver , I A , McCaffery , J P , Cassidy , C A , Clemens , J & Vermehren , A 2017 , A virtual museum installation for virtual time travel . in D Beck , C Allison , L Morgado , J Pirker , F Khosmood , J Richter & C Gütl (eds) , Immersive Learning Research Network : Third International Conference, iLRN 2017, Coimbra, Portugal, June 26–29, 2017. Proceedings . Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) , vol. 725 , Springer , Cham , pp. 255-270 , Third International Conference of the Immersive Learning Network , Coimbra , Portugal , 26/06/17 . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60633-0_21 conference
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Immersive Learning Research Network
ISSN
1865-0929Type
Conference item
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