publications: - title: "Exploring the relationship between presence and enjoyment in a virtual museum" author: - name: "Stella Sylaiou" link: "http://www.topo.auth.gr/" - name: "Katerina Mania" link: "https://researchr.org/alias/katerina-mania" - name: "Athanasis Karoulis" link: "https://researchr.org/alias/athanasis-karoulis" - name: "Martin White" link: "https://researchr.org/alias/martin-white" year: "2010" doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2009.11.002" abstract: "The Augmented Representation of Cultural Objects (ARCO) system, developed as a part of an EU ICT project, provides museum curators with software and interface tools to develop web-based virtual museum exhibitions by integrating augmented reality (AR) and 3D computer graphics. ARCO technologies could also be deployed in order to implement educational kiosks placed in real-world museums. The main purpose of the system is to offer an entertaining, informative and enjoyable experience to virtual museum visitors. This paper presents a formal usability study that has been undertaken in order to explore participants’ perceived ‘sense of being there’ and enjoyment while exposed to a virtual museum exhibition in relation to real-world visits. The virtual museum implemented was based on an existing gallery in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK. It is of interest to determine whether a high level of presence results in enhanced enjoyment. After exposure to the system, participants completed standardized presence questionnaires related to the perceived realism of cultural artifacts referred to as AR objects’ presence, as well as to participants’ generic perceived presence in the virtual museum referred to as VR presence. The studies conducted indicate that previous experience with ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) did not correlate with perceived AR objects’ presence or VR presence while exposed to a virtual heritage environment. Enjoyment and both AR objects’ presence and VR presence were found to be positively correlated. Therefore, a high level of perceived presence could be closely associated with satisfaction and gratification which contribute towards an appealing experience while interacting with a museum simulation system." links: doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2009.11.002" dblp: "http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bibtex/journals/ijmms/SylaiouMKW10" tags: - "rule-based" - "deployment" - "completeness" - "meta-model" - "visitor" - "Meta-Environment" - "meta-objects" researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/SylaiouMKW10" cites: 0 citedby: 0 journal: "ijmms" volume: "68" number: "5" pages: "243-253" kind: "article" key: "SylaiouMKW10" - title: "An Interactive Visualisation Interface for Virtual Museums" author: - name: "Fotis Liarokapis" link: "https://researchr.org/alias/fotis-liarokapis" - name: "Stella Sylaiou" link: "http://www.topo.auth.gr/" - name: "Anirban Basu" link: "https://researchr.org/alias/anirban-basu" - name: "Nicholaos Mourkoussis" link: "https://researchr.org/alias/nicholaos-mourkoussis" - name: "Martin White" link: "https://researchr.org/alias/martin-white" - name: "Paul F. Lister" link: "https://researchr.org/alias/paul-f.-lister" year: "2004" doi: "http://www.eg.org/EG/DL/WS/VAST/VAST04/047-056.pdf" abstract: "Cultural institutions, such as museums are particularly interested in making their collections accessible to people with physical disabilities. New technologies, such as Web3D and augmented reality (AR) can aid museums to respond to this challenge by building virtual museums accessible over the Internet or through kiosks located in accessible places within the museum. In this paper, we propose a prototype user-friendly visualisation interface that uses Web3D and AR techniques to visualise cultural heritage artefacts for virtual museum exhibitions. User interactions within the virtual museum are performed in an effective way with the help of assistive technology, so that users can feel completely related with the virtual museum artefacts and so benefit in terms of education and entertainment." links: doi: "http://www.eg.org/EG/DL/WS/VAST/VAST04/047-056.pdf" researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/LiarokapisSBMWL04" cites: 0 citedby: 0 pages: "47-56" booktitle: "vast" kind: "inproceedings" key: "LiarokapisSBMWL04" - title: "Usability Evaluation of a Virtual Museum Interface" author: - name: "Athanasis Karoulis" link: "https://researchr.org/alias/athanasis-karoulis" - name: "Stella Sylaiou" link: "http://www.topo.auth.gr/" - name: "Martin White" link: "https://researchr.org/alias/martin-white" year: "2006" doi: "http://www.vtex.lt/Informatica/htm/INFO641.htm" abstract: "The Augmented Representation of Cultural Objects (ARCO) system provides software and interface tools to museum curators to develop virtual museum exhibitions, as well as a virtual environment for museum visitors over the World Wide Web or in informative kiosks. The main purpose of the system is to offer an enhanced educative and entertaining experience to virtual museum visitors. In order to assess the usability of the system, two approaches have been employed: a questionnaire based survey and a Cognitive Walkthrough session. Both approaches employed expert evaluators, such as domain experts and usability experts. The result of this study shows a fair performance of the followed approach, as regards the consumed time, financial and other resources, as a great deal of usability problems has been uncovered and many aspects of the system have been investigated. The knowledge gathered aims at creating a conceptual framework for diagnose usability problems in systems in the area of Virtual Cultural Heritage." links: doi: "http://www.vtex.lt/Informatica/htm/INFO641.htm" tags: - "rule-based" - "meta-model" - "visitor" - "survey" - "Meta-Environment" - "systematic-approach" - "meta-objects" researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/KaroulisSW06" cites: 0 citedby: 0 journal: "informaticaLT" volume: "17" number: "3" pages: "363-380" kind: "article" key: "KaroulisSW06"