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Virtual Museums as a New Type of Cyber-Physical-Social System

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Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Computer Graphics (AVR 2019)

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Abstract

Museums are institutions that primarily care for cultural heritage exhibition, preservation and conservation of historical artifacts. However, simply displaying artifacts and provide complex information to describe them is simply not sufficient to effectively engage museum visitors. To improve visitors engagement and their overall museum experience, the use of technology utilized by museums, introducing the concept of Virtual Museums. This paper discusses the use of Virtual Reality through the use of smart phone devices as a mean of a Cyber-Physical-Social system to support, improve and enhance the visitors’ experience. The RoboSHU prototype, its current development stage and future work are presented, together with the future research directions of the research team.

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We would like to acknowledge Enohor Igbeyi, a PhD student at the Centre for Automation and Robotics Research, Sheffield Hallam University, for her contribution to the design of RoboSHU.

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Nisiotis, L., Alboul, L., Beer, M. (2019). Virtual Museums as a New Type of Cyber-Physical-Social System. In: De Paolis, L., Bourdot, P. (eds) Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Computer Graphics. AVR 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11614. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25999-0_22

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