Museums need an interactive data collection and visualisation tool for their artefacts. This paper describes a study in which we enable access to Chinese and Japanese cultural heritage information from two history museums, the National Palace Museum in Taiwan and the Tokugawa Art Museum in Japan. Results from these museum databases were used to develop a prototype system to demonstrate advanced...

This paper deals with some characteristics of museum objects within the museological context and it tries to explain reasons why museum information systems are hardly ever covering all aspects of museum work and why it is not always easy to document even the complete physical description of objects in the museum information systems. Semological concepts were used to analyse the museum object an...

In the past few years, museum visualization systems have become a hot topic that attracts many researchers’ interests. Several systems provide Web services for browsing museum collections through the Web. In this paper, we proposed an intelligent museum system for history museum artifacts, and described a study in which we enable access to China and Japan cultural heritage information from two ...

BACKGROUND This study sought to determine the effects of a heritage-in-health intervention on well-being. Benefits of arts-in-health interventions are relatively well-documented yet little robust research has been conducted using heritage-in-health interventions, such as those involving museum objects. METHODS Hospital patients (n = 57) participated in semi-structured, 30-40 minute facilitate...

imaging and modeling of real objects have received significant attention in the computer vision and graphics research fields. The capacity to create, display, and manipulate a high-resolution 3D digital representation of an existing object’s shape and appearance can play a significant role in the area of heritage, comprising museum collections and archaeological objects and sites. The Visual In...

Most cultural heritage exhibitions, both indoor and outdoor, could benefit from context-aware and personalized museum guides. Although, technological advancements in digitization, digital storage, visualisation and interaction have evolved rapidly, the current generation of museum exhibition and mobile guides offer systems with restricted capabilities and content, for example user selected audi...

We propose a new area to focus upon as a research challenge: How to use personalized technology to connect our cultural heritage experiences to our "daily" lives. In particular we want to connect the visitor's museum experiences with outside relevant mobile cultural heritage experiences. We begin to examine what processes and technologies will be necessary to accomplish the when, what and how o...

We describe a system which enhances the experience of museum visits by providing users with language-technology-based information retrieval capabilities. The system consists of a cross-lingual search engine, augmented by state of the art semantic expansion technology, specifically designed for the domain of the museum (history and archaeology of Israel). We discuss the technology incorporated i...

In this paper, we examine a possible plan to associate museum visits with outdoor cultural heritage activities. The plan consists of looking at museum visit movement styles to predict personality and learning styles, and using holding power to determine user interests. We then describe how this information can be utilized to both suggest possible venues (opportunity development) and provide ass...

Digital games are a rapidly growing cultural and social phenomenon. Game artists, museologists, and scientists with a background in 3D Visualisation, Creative Games, Heritage Studies, and Museum and Heritage Exhibition Design joined forces for a project to implement a complex structure of socio-historical knowledge about a tudor building in Manchester as a computer game. The project investigate...