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RelicPad: A hands-on, mobile approach to collaborative exploration of virtual museum artifacts

conference contribution
posted on 2023-05-23, 08:23 authored by Neale, S, Winyu ChinthammitWinyu Chinthammit, Lueg, C, Nixon, P

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

8117

Editors

P Kotze et al

Pagination

86-103

ISSN

0302-9743

Department/School

School of Information and Communication Technology

Publisher

Heidelberg, Germany

Place of publication

Springer

Event title

14th IFIP TC 13 International Conference

Event Venue

Cape Town, South Africa

Date of Event (Start Date)

2013-09-02

Date of Event (End Date)

2013-09-06

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Copyright 2013 IFIP International Federation for Information Processing. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com

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