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Inclusive Multimodal Discovery of Cultural Heritage: Listen and Touch

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP-AAATE 2022)

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Abstract

Museums around the world present their collections mainly to visual perception without the possibility of hearing or touching paintings, sculptures and artworks (Size, fragility). It has now become a priority to promote inclusive approaches to issues related to accessibility. Audio and tactile perceptions are often complementary. The figurative elements of the paintings are difficult to describe with words but can be presented tactilely. Other elements cannot be perceived via touch, for example colors, light, some links between elements; but these elements and the feelings they arouse can be evoked via audio-description. We present our tests of objective and sensorial audio description. Then we propose tactile exploration with the use of Force Feedback Tablet (F2T) to discover the general shape of some elements in a painting and complete the perception with an inclusive audio-description.

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Acknowledgment

We like to thank Claire Bartoli, Patrick Crespel, Nadine Dutier, Claude Gilbert, Maryse Jacob, Hamid Kohandel, Valérie Pasquet for organization and participation to the tests, as well as the Valentin Haüy Assiciation and the Federation of Blind and Amblyopes of France (FAF) which hosted the tests on their premises. We thank Edwige Pissaloux, Simon Gay and Marc-Aurèle Rivière for organizing the experiments with F2T.

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  1. LITIS, University of Rouen Normandy, Rouen, France

    Katerine Romeo

  2. Royal Holloway University of London, London, United Kingdom

    Hannah Thompson

  3. IHRIM, CNRS-ENS Lyon, Lyon, France

    Marion Chottin

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  1. Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Georgios Kouroupetroglou

  3. European University Cyprus, Engomi, Cyprus

    Katerina Mavrou

  4. University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

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  5. Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

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Romeo, K., Thompson, H., Chottin, M. (2022). Inclusive Multimodal Discovery of Cultural Heritage: Listen and Touch. In: Miesenberger, K., Kouroupetroglou, G., Mavrou, K., Manduchi, R., Covarrubias Rodriguez, M., Penáz, P. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP-AAATE 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13341. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08648-9_32

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