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The booming development of digital technologies has significant effects on the way that human see and feel this world. The digitalization of artworks raises a set of interesting topics with the aim of making the artworks accessible to anyone with an Internet connection. In this paper, an Android Mobile App ‘A is for Art’ was developed to help the general public to find paintings using free-hand drawings, with the aim of involving more people with the Visual Art in an interesting way, particularly the paintings from the Tate Collection. A focus group for usability evaluation was conducted, and several design principles were drawn from the phases of development and evaluation.
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Zhang, M., Atkinson, S., Alechina, N., Qiu, G. (2013). ‘A Is for Art’ – My Drawings, Your Paintings. In: Petrosino, A., Maddalena, L., Pala, P. (eds) New Trends in Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2013. ICIAP 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8158. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41190-8_33
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