The making and evaluation of Picts and Pixels : mixed exhibiting in the real and the unreal

Cassidy, Catherine Anne; Fabola, Adeola Ezekiel; Rhodes, Elizabeth Gabriel Sarah; Miller, Alan Henry David

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2018

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Museums publicly display collections in a physical space to relay narratives and concepts to their audiences. Progressive technologies in an exhibition can bring in varying demographics and gather higher footfall for a museum as well as present digital heritage interpretation in an innovative manner. A mixed media exhibition can facilitate subjects with limited physical resources or difficult to display pieces as well as the visual landscape the objects were found within. A combination of Virtual Reality headsets, 3D digitized objects, digitally reconstructed archaeological sites alongside traditional object displays as methods of interpretation substantiate research in techniques and usability as well as challenges of recoup cost and digital literacies. This paper investigates the methodology, technology and evaluation of the mixed media exhibition Picts & Pixels presented by Culture Perth and Kinross and the Open Virtual Worlds research team at the University of St Andrews at the Perth Museum and Art Gallery in summer 2017.

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Cassidy , C A , Fabola , A E , Rhodes , E G S & Miller , A H D 2018 , The making and evaluation of Picts and Pixels : mixed exhibiting in the real and the unreal . in D Beck , C Allison , L Morgado , J Pirker , A Peña-Rios , T Ogle , J Richter & C Gütl (eds) , Immersive Learning Research Network : 4th International Conference, iLRN 2018, Missoula, MT, USA, June 24-29, 2018, Proceedings . Communications in Computer and Information Science , vol. 840 , Springer , Cham , pp. 97-112 , Fourth Annual International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN 2018) , Missoula , Montana , United States , 24/06/18 . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93596-6_7

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Immersive Learning Research Network

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93596-6_7

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1865-0929

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© 2018, Springer International Publishing AG. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93596-6_7

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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15482