Abstract
This work presents a web-based authoring tool that enables museum curators and individuals to make digital collections of exhibits accessible and explorable via the Web. It allows users to create interactive and immersive virtual 3D/VR exhibitions using a unified collaborative authoring environment based on a Human-Centered Design approach with the active participation of museum curators and end-users. Main contributions are pertinent to the fields of (a) user-designed dynamic virtual exhibitions, (b) exhibition tours, (c) visualization in web-based 3D/VR technologies, and (d) immersive navigation and interaction.
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The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Foundation for Research and Technology—Hellas (Approval date: 12 April 2019/Reference number: 40/12–4-2019).
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The authors would like to thank the employees of the Historical Museum of Crete, as well as all end-users who participated in the co-creation and evaluation of the web-based authoring tool, providing valuable feedback and insights.
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This work has been conducted in the context of the Unveiling the Invisible Museum research project (http://invisible-museum.gr), and has been co-financed by the European Union and Greek national funds, under the call RESEARCH–CREATE–INNOVATE (project code: T1EDK-02725).
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Zidianakis, E. et al. (2022). Web-Based Authoring Tool for Virtual Exhibitions. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M., Ntoa, S., Salvendy, G. (eds) HCI International 2022 – Late Breaking Posters. HCII 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1654. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19679-9_48
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