The visualisation of historical information and storytelling in museums is a crucial process for transferring knowledge by directly and simplistically engaging the museum audience. Until recently, technological limitations meant museums were limited to 2D and 3D screen-based information displays. However, advancements in Mixed Reality (MR) devices permit the propagation of a virtual overlay that amalgamates

Digital technology in museum practice provides new means of interaction with artifacts and collections. In particular, we need interactive installations in order to encourage and stimulate visitors to learn and understand archaeological musical instruments through engagement and active participation: these instruments (i.e., interactive artifacts per se) are de facto unplayable and inaccessible to

In this article, a method is proposed to accurately overlap multiple high-quality images with different shooting positions and intervals by combining corresponding point information between images and 3D shape information. In the proposed method, the correct feature matching of images obtained by rendering the 3D model of the subject is used. In this research, the subjects were the pillars of the Angkor

Research on seismic simulations has focused mainly on methodologies specially tailored to civil engineering. However, we have detected a lack in the area of interactive cultural heritage applications, where speed and plausibility are the main requirements to satisfy. We designed a tool that allows setting up and recreating earthquakes in a simple way. We coupled our earthquake simulator with a structural

We examine the experience of Thresholds, a virtual reality (VR) recreation of the world's first photographic exhibition, which has toured to multiple museums. Following the method of performance-led research in the wild, we provide an account of the artist's design rationale and the experiences of visitors as the work toured. We reveal how the overlaying and juxtaposing of virtual and physical spaces

Presentations of virtual cultural heritage artifacts are often communicated via the medium of interactive digital storytelling. The synergy of a storied narrative embedded within a 3D virtual reconstruction context has high consumer appeal and edutainment value. We investigate if 360° videos presented through virtual reality further contribute to user immersion for the application of preserving intangible

Being a world-renowned heritage site, the Ming Great Wall, located in Qinghai Province, China, mainly has existed as the form of earthen sites with high historical, artistic, and scientific values. However, exposed under environmental impacts for about 500 years, these sites have been seriously threatened. The study on their damage assessment using reasonable methods is the key premise for further

The increase of multidisciplinary research in the field of architectural history has led to the need to set up new experiences and solutions for the handling and integration of the information extracted from historical documents. These solutions seek to support diverse users of the research community with the aim of solving challenges directly related with the digitalisation, structuring, standardisation

Ceramic sherds are the most common finds in archaeology. They are complex to analyse and very onerous to process. A large number of indistinct sherds coming from excavations must be preliminarily grouped in some categories. This clusterization facilitates the next phase, in which archaeologists classify the ceramics. Due to the difficulty of these preliminary, repetitive and routine phases, a great

Many historical monuments were originally vividly painted (polychromatic) and researchers have been able to reach consensus on this even for monument classes for only indirect evidence of painting survives. However, academic caution has led to an understandable reluctance to pass this knowledge on the public through use of reconstructions showing the colour schemes of these monuments. As a result,

The introduction of digital technologies into documentation methods for the cultural heritage and the archeology made it possible to develop new tools for the acquisition and the management of information collected for multidisciplinary studies. These tools are beginning to assert themselves as supports privileged for the description, the analysis and the comprehension of the objects of study. SIAT

This work illustrates the use of three different digitization techniques in order to study and valorize a 15th century engraved tablet discovered during a preventive archaeological excavation in a former convent. The tablet is covered on both sides of engraved inscriptions, including a musical score. Digitization allowed to better analyze the inscriptions, and to generate a complete and precise 3D

This paper describes a method for early detection of disaster-related damage to cultural heritage. It is based on data from social media, a timely and large-scale data source that is nevertheless quite noisy. First, we collect images posted on social media that may refer to a cultural heritage site. Then, we automatically categorize these images according to two dimensions: whether they are indeed

Visits to cultural heritage sites are generally social in nature, yet resources to support these sociable experiences are often individualized, catering to the solitary visitor. Digital technologies offer means to disrupt this predicament, encouraging social engagements in cultural contexts. Here we present the results of a user study that systematically investigates the effects of face-to-face group

Cultural Heritage can use ICT and game design to provide compelling experiences of visiting ancient ruins. In fact, archaeological sites benefit from being enriched with additional meanings that help visitors to contextualize what they see. For example, young tourists when accessing cities of the past could miss the chance of really appreciating the history and the culture of extinguished civilizations

For archaeologists it is often desirable to present statues in their original material and coloration. With projection mapping real-world surfaces are augmented by digital content to create compelling alterations of the scene's visual appearance without actually altering or even damaging the object. While there are frequent advances in projection quality, content creation is still a challenging and