The paper presents the new concept of Adaptive Augmented Reality (AR), employed within the context of the creation of an AR guide for the museum visit. The augmentations provided are not only visual but also acoustic, while the interest of the visitor is also monitored using physiological sensors, so that the multimedia content delivered to the visitor’s see-through AR display with which she ca...

The paper presents the new concept of Adaptive Augmented Reality (AR), employed within the context of the creation of an AR guide for the museum visit. The augmentations provided are not only visual but also acoustic, while the interest of the visitor is also monitored using physiological sensors, so that the multimedia content delivered to the visitor’s see-through AR display with which she ca...

The eHumanity Project, developed by Indiana University in collaboration with the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC), aims to create an evolving online cultural repository for the native tribes of the North American continent. By establishing a database from the collections of the Smithsonian Natural Museum of the American Indian and Autry Southwest Museum of the American Indian...

The research objective is to analyze the “widespread museum” of the city of Taranto, the systemic set of widespread cultural heritage in the city and in the surrounding area, and to consider it in view of a cultural touristic destination. In particular, the research aims to verify if and how the “widespread museum” may help to achieve social and economic positive externalities, so substantial b...

During a museum visit, social interaction can improve intellectual, social, personal and cultural development. With the advances in technology, the use of personal mobile handheld devices such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) that replace the traditional paper guidebooks is becoming a common sight at various heritage sites all over the world. This technology often leads to problems such as...

The digital imaging of cultural and heritage objects has become commonplace as memory institutions create digital surrogates and representation of their holdings, generally to increase public access by providing the resulting images online, but also to provide accurate and detailed records, and to facilitate detailed analysis of objects, documents, buildings, and artefacts. Commercially availab...

Although the widespread use of gaming for leisure purposes has been well documented, the use of games to support cultural heritage purposes, such as historical teaching and learning, or for enhancing museum visits, has been less well considered. The state-of-the-art in serious game technology is identical to that of the state-of-the-art in entertainment games technology. As a result the field o...

Human settlements experience continual change. In recent years, many rural areas have experienced dispersed grow (rural sprawl) and population declines in traditional village centers (Hollowing). These paradoxical phenomena have occurred in most developing countries, including rural Iran. This study examines this phenomena in three Iranian villages of Kahak area of Qom province, and develops a ...

SMARTMUSEUM (Cultural Heritage Knowledge Exchange Platform) is a Research and Development project sponsored under the Europeans Commission’s 7th Framework. The overall objective of the project is to develop a platform for innovative services enhancing on-site personalized access to digital cultural heritage through adaptive and privacy preserving user profiling. Using on-site knowledge database...

The article is published based on the materials of report same name, delivered at second scientific and practical conference «Popularization technical heritage in museum» (Saint-Petersburg, GET, October 11, 2022). author examines transport thesaurus maritime museums through prism state image policy. Maritime Museum forms value categories related to dignity state, its history, national narrative...