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RelicPad: A hands-on, mobile approach to collaborative exploration of virtual museum artifacts
In an ideal world, physical museum artefacts could be touched, handled, examined and passed between interested viewers by hand. Unfortunately, this is not always possible – artefacts may be too fragile to handle or pass around, or groups of people with mutual interests in objects may not be in the same location. This can be problematic when attempting to explain or make sense of the physical properties of artefacts.
To address these problems, we propose that direct manipulation of 3D content based on real-world interaction metaphors can help collaborators (both co and remotely located) to construct personal and mutual physical and spatial awareness of artefacts, while networked communication and collaboration allow for ideas and knowledge to be exchanged and shared.
We present our interpretations from two studies of RelicPad, a tablet-based application that allows users to manually manipulate museum artefacts and to ‘point out’ areas of interest to each other using 3D annotations, facilitating a mutual awareness of spatial properties and referencing during discussion.
History
Publication title
Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 8117 (INTERACT 2013)Volume
8117Editors
P Kotze et alPagination
86-103ISSN
0302-9743Department/School
School of Information and Communication TechnologyPublisher
Heidelberg, GermanyPlace of publication
SpringerEvent title
14th IFIP TC 13 International ConferenceEvent Venue
Cape Town, South AfricaDate of Event (Start Date)
2013-09-02Date of Event (End Date)
2013-09-06Rights statement
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