VR Applications, New Devices and Museums: Visitors’ Feedback and Learning. A Preliminary Report

Forte, M., Pescarin, S. and Pujol Tost, L. (2006) VR Applications, New Devices and Museums: Visitors’ Feedback and Learning. A Preliminary Report. In: 7th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage VAST (2006), Nicossia, Cyprus, 30 Oct - 4 Nov 2006, pp. 64-69.

Abstract

Between the 15th of September 2005 and the 15th of November 2005, an exhibit on virtual and Roman archaeology was organized in Rome inside the Trajan's Market Museum. The event, “Building Virtual Rome” (“Immaginare Roma Antica”),was a great opportunity to show, inside an ancient monument, for the first time together, many different projects,applications and installations about VR and Cultural Heritage. The uniqueness of the event was at the same time an occasion to live a new experience, for visitors and for organizers as well, and to face some problematic aspects due, both, mainly by the meeting of high technological projects (some of them still at research level), cultural contents and also archaeological “container”. During the exhibit we tried to observe visitors and make some interviews, with the goal of understanding their expectations at the beginning, their experience during their visit and finally their satisfaction/unsatisfaction, learning, feedback, interaction level during and after the visit. The preliminary results of this analysis are showing that the embodiment and the diverse difficulties to use diverse devices and software depend on many factors and that “communicating” the virtual is not a technological issue, but it is an epistemological question.

• Item Type: Conference Proceedings
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Pujol-Tost, Dr Laia
• Authors: Forte, M., Pescarin, S., and Pujol Tost, L.
• College/School: College of Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities > Information Studies