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Designing an Interactive Mural for Cultural Reflections

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Advances in Visual Informatics (IVIC 2017)

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While many cultural heritage projects currently exist, few explore how to record and transform intangible heritage into a publicly accessible collection. This paper presents an interactive system combining the Web and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to create an internet-linked interactive mural that allows visitors to listen and interact with crowdsourced life stories. Our findings highlight positive user reactions and some evidence of the interactive system being able to support cultural reflections. While the life stories appeal to most of the adults, younger children were less patient and interested in listening to them. Instead they were attracted to visual projections and the unobtrusive technology. We propose a design framework, outlining three design aspects necessary to understand and design engaging and immersive user experience. The use of interactive mural enabled us to understand the challenges of preserving and sharing intangible heritage so that they are heard and can be reflected upon in greater depth. The paper also outlines recommendations for future work to include a long term longitudinal study and to introduce mechanism for reviewing crowdsourced content.

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We would like to thank Ms. Melissa Chan from the Baba Nyonya Heritage Museum for allowing us to conduct the evaluation study at the museum and for supporting this research project with constructive feedbacks.

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  1. School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, Jalan Broga, 43500, Semenyih, Selangor, Malaysia

    Wei Hong Lo & Kher Hui Ng

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  1. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia

    Halimah Badioze Zaman

  2. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    Peter Robinson

  3. Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

    Alan F. Smeaton

  4. National Central University, Jhongli, Taiwan

    Timothy K. Shih

  5. Carlos III University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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  6. Toyo University, Kawagoe, Japan

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  7. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia

    Azizah Jaafar

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    Nazlena Mohamad Ali

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Lo, W.H., Ng, K.H. (2017). Designing an Interactive Mural for Cultural Reflections. In: Badioze Zaman, H., et al. Advances in Visual Informatics. IVIC 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10645. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70010-6_53

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