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Paintings Alive: A Virtual Reality-Based Approach for Enhancing the User Experience of Art Gallery Visitors

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Abstract

Visits to art museums are not appealing to a wide sector of the public, limiting in that way the exposure of art works to the wider community and especially the younger generation. In this paper we investigate the use of Virtual Reality (VR) for displaying animated artworks as a means for creating an enhanced user experience that could make visits to art-galleries more appealing. A key point of the proposed technique is the analysis of the art-works that enables the determination of a most appropriate setting and animation that best promotes the original message of the painter. The promise of this approach has been validated through an experimental user evaluation where users clearly indicated the benefits of using interactive virtual environments for presenting animated art paintings.

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Notes

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Musicians.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Guitarist.

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    Audiovisual material demonstrating the animated artworks is available at https://www.dropbox.com/s/wfsmg6ihf7nol8n/animations.mp4?dl=0.

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-gTQ1iY72w.

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    A movie demonstrating the application is available at https://www.dropbox.com/s/hczkt0l9t8oxyq5/demo.mp4?dl=0.

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  1. Visual Media Computing Research Lab, Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts, Cyprus University of Technology, Lemesos, Cyprus

    Stavros Panayiotou & Andreas Lanitis

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  1. Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus

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  2. Arlington, Virginia, USA

    Eleanor Fink

  3. School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Antonia Moropoulou

  4. Institut für Museumsforschung, Berlin, Germany

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  5. Promoter s.r.l., Peccioli, Italy

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  6. University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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  7. Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

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  8. INSA, Strasbourg, France

    Pierre Grussenmeyer

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Panayiotou, S., Lanitis, A. (2016). Paintings Alive: A Virtual Reality-Based Approach for Enhancing the User Experience of Art Gallery Visitors. In: Ioannides, M., et al. Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection. EuroMed 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10059. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48974-2_27

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