Abstract
Abstract. Cultural heritage is neither static nor stable. There is a need to explore ways for effectively communicating with cultural heritage to tourists and society at large, in an age of immediacy, a time of multiple realities and to multi-cultural tourists. It is vital to consider cultural heritage as a creative and relational process where places and communities are constantly remade through creative performance. The paper introduces virtual technologies as an approach to attain effective communication with cultural heritage. This approach emphasizes the importance of "user, content and context" in guiding the production of virtual heritage, as opposed to technology being the sole motivator. It addresses how these three issues in virtual heritage need to be transformed from merely representing quantitative data towards cultural information using the proposed effective communication triangle through representing meaningful relationships between cultural heritage elements, users and context. The paper offers a focused articulation of a proposed computational platform of "interactive, personalized and contextual-based navigation" with Egyptian heritage monuments as a one step forward towards achieving effective communication with Egyptian cultural heritage.
Highlights
The term “heritage” broadly refers to the study of human activity through the recovery of remains, as is the case with archaeology, and through tradition, art and cultural evidences, and narratives
An Augmented Reality (AR) paradigm has been introduced to cultural heritage by Aguiló et al (2001), who proposed a system that establishes a dialog between users and archaeological objects right in place
In order to achieve an effective communication with cultural heritage using virtual technologies, a matrix has been developed as illustrated in Table 1 to outline the types of information to be communicated to users and the recommended level of communication in relation to the users’ features taking into account the acquired users’ features and location
Summary
The term “heritage” broadly refers to the study of human activity through the recovery of remains, as is the case with archaeology, and through tradition, art and cultural evidences, and narratives. “virtual heritage” (VH) is a term used to describe works that deals with virtual-reality (VR) and cultural-heritage (Roussou, 2002). The features of “virtual heritage” include facilitating synthesis, conservation, reproduction, representation, digital reprocessing, and displaying cultural heritage using the advancements of VR technologies (Roussou, 2002). A Mixed Reality system merges the real world and virtual worlds to produce a new environment wherein physical and digital objects co-exist and interact. With the advancement of technology, digital heritage projects have enhanced their capability from linear limited interactivity to non-linear immersive environment. Due to advanced computer hardware and high-end graphics cards, present trends in virtual reality applications are motivated towards the use of immersive technology for real-time interaction with high detail. Heritage preservation: 3D virtual models contain accurate data and help for restoration
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