Abstract
Cultural-heritage research has created a vast amount of information regarding heritage objects and sites. At the same time, recent efforts on the digitization of cultural heritage have provided novel means of documenting tangible cultural resources including digital images, videos, audio testimonies, and 3D reconstructions. Furthermore, ethnographic research is nowadays combined with advanced capturing technologies such as motion capture to record the intangible dimensions of heritage as these are manifested through human expression in dance, heritage crafts, etc. This amount of information is now available and should be used to create novel forms of experiential access to cultural heritage powered by the web and mobile technologies mixed with novel interaction paradigms such as virtual and augmented reality. In this article, a platform is presented that facilitates a cloud-based web application to support location-based narratives on cultural-heritage resources provided through map-based or story-based representation approaches. At the same time, the platform through the power of modern mobile devices can provide these experiences on the move using location-based and image recognition-based augmented reality to facilitate multiple usage contexts. The platform was implemented to support the goal of the project CuRe, in the context of the “Greece-Germany” bilateral collaboration action.
Highlights
Heritage can be thought of as a collection of essential elements, entrusted to succeeding generations for remembrance and preservation
A more loose example is the Hop story, which allows the characters in the story to act in their timeline and move to different locations throughout the building during the user’s exploration of it [29], adding a layer of time and evolution over time on top of the main storyline
More than 10 researchers and research assistants, including user experience (UX) experts, software engineers, historians, and social scientists participated in defining the requirements of the system
Summary
Heritage can be thought of as a collection of essential elements, entrusted to succeeding generations for remembrance and preservation. This work aimed to link these narratives to material remains, such as buildings and, more generally, objects of cultural heritage and places of memory, which will be recorded digitally (primarily as photographs, videos, maps, graphical representations, and texts) These will be made available both online and through an application for mobile devices that together will support a location-based mixed-reality (MR) experience by fusing augmented reality (AR) with mobile information to allow users to gain instant access to information on their smartphone or tablet, relevant to the buildings, places, and sites of memory—where they are located. Visual techniques can further establish the order in which the eye visits elements in the scene controlled through composition, contrast, and grouping, such as gestalt grouping [10], via features such as spatial proximity, containment, or connection
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