ARCO

From EuroVR Knowledge Base

Full name
Augmented Representation of Cultural Objects
Acronym
ARCO
Website
http://www.virtual-museums.eu/
Keywords
virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, cultural heritage, museums, virtual exhibitions
Budget
€ 2.8M Euro
Start date
2001/10/01
End date
2004/09/30, continued development



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Partners

Funding Bodies

Contact

Objectives

The goal of ARCO project was to develop innovative technology and expertise to help museums create, manipulate, manage and present cultural objects in virtual exhibitions based on VR and AR technologies and accessible both inside museums and remotely over the Internet.

Main Results

ARCO has developed a solution for museums to create, manipulate, manage, and present cultural objects in multimedia VR and AR exhibitions for use on the web or in interactive kiosk displays. The project put a great emphasis on the interactivity and intuitiveness of the user interface for presenting the cultural information, especially to the younger generation of museum visitors. The ARCO system offers a novel approach to exploring cultural object collections. In addition to exploring a well known Web interface, users can interact with selected objects in virtual and AR environments. The ARCO system enables building interactive learning scenarios in the form of games and quizzes, where users are no longer only passive viewers and readers but they become actors. In particular, interactive presentations can be prepared as educational material customised for children of different age groups for use within a museum or for distance learning. A number of educational games have been implemented, e.g. to arrange objects in correct chronological order, to answer questions about the objects, or re-locate them to a place where they might have originally been used or found. Despite the fact that the project targets the cultural heritage domain, the implemented solution can be used for presenting information and teaching in other domains such as chemistry, geography, biology, etc.

End Users

Evaluation Methodologies



Publications


  • Stawniak, M., K. Walczak, Geographical Presentation of Virtual Museum Exhibitions, The 7th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Intelligent Cultural Heritage VAST 2006, October 30 - November 4, 2006, Nicosia (Cyprus) ; Editor: M. Ioannides, D. Arnold, F. Niccolicci, K. Mania ; Eurographics Association, Switzerland; pp. 101-108
  • Walczak, K., W. Cellary, M. White, Virtual Museum Exhibitions, IEEE Computer, Volume 39, Issue 3; March 2006; ; IEEE Computer Society Press ; pp. 93-95
  • Walczak, K., J. Chmielewski, M. Stawniak, S. Strykowski, Extensible Metadata Framework for Describing Virtual Reality and Multimedia Contents, The 7th IASTED International Conference on Databases and Applications DBA 2006, February 14 - 16, 2006, Innsbruck, Austria ; Editor: M. H. Hamza; The International Association of Science and Technology for Development IASTED; pp. 168-175
  • Walczak, K., R. Wojciechowski, Dynamic Creation of Interactive Mixed Reality Presentations, ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology - VRST 2005, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, November 7 - 9, 2005 ; ACM Press, NY USA; pp. 167-176
  • Walczak, K., M. Stawniak, M. White, P. Kelleher, Image-based Photorealistic 3D Models for Virtual Museum Exhibitions, The 11th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia - VSMM 2005, October 3-7, 2005 ; Editor: Hal Thwaites; Archaeolingua; pp. 541-551
  • Patel, M., M. White, N. Mourkoussis, K. Walczak, R. Wojciechowski, J. Chmielewski,Metadata Requirements for Digital Museum Environments, International Journal on Digital Libraries, Special Issue on Digital Museum, Volume 5, Number 3, May/2005; Springer-Verlag; pp. 179-192
  • Cellary, W., K. Walczak, Wirtualne wystawy, Sprawy Nauki - Biuletyn Ministra Nauki i Informatyzacji, Nr 3/2005(108); pp. 10-11 (in Polish)
  • Wojciechowski, R., K. Walczak, W. Cellary, Mixed Reality for Interactive Learning of Cultural Heritage, First International VR-Learning Seminar, in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Virtual Reality, VRIC - Laval Virtual 2005, 20-22 April 2005, Laval (France); pp. 95-99
  • Patel M., K. Walczak, F. Giorgini, M. White, A Cultural Heritage Repository as Source for Learning Materials, The 5th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage VAST 2004 incorporating the 2nd Eurographics Workshop on Graphic and Cultural Heritage, Brussels and Oudenaarde (Belgium), December 7 - 10, 2004; Editor: Eurographics Association; pp. 213-222
  • White, M., N. Mourkoussis, J. Darcy, P. Petridis, F. Liarokapis, P. Lister, K. Walczak, R. Wojciechowski, W. Cellary, J. Chmielewski, M. Stawniak, W. Wiza, M. Patel, J. Stevenson, J. Manley, F. Giorgini, P. Sayd, F. Gaspard, ARCO - An Architecture for Digitization, Management and Presentation of Virtual Exhibitions, Computer Graphics International CGI 2004, Hersonissos, Crete (Greece); June 2004; pp. 622-625
  • Wojciechowski R., K. Walczak, M. White, W. Cellary, Building Virtual and Augmented Reality Museum Exhibitions, Web3D 2004 Symposium - the 9th International Conference on 3D Web Technology, Monterey, California (USA) ; April 2004; ACM SIGGRAPH; pp. 135-144
  • Wojciechowski, R., K. Walczak, M. White, Augmented Reality Interface for Museum Artifact Visualization, IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging and Image Processing VIIP 2003, Benalmadena (Spain), September 2003; pp. 998-1004
  • Mourkoussis N., M. White, M. Patel, J. Chmielewski, K. Walczak, AMS - Metadata for Cultural Exhibitions using Virtual Reality, Dublin Core International Conference DC 2003, Seattle, Washington (USA) ; September 28 - October 2, 2003; pp. 193-201
  • Patel, M., M. White, K. Walczak, P. Sayd, Digitisation to Presentation - Building Virtual Museum Exhibitions, International Conference on Vision, Video and Graphics, Bath, UK ; Editor: Peter Hall and Phil Willis; July 2003; pp. 189-196
  • White, M., K. Walczak, N. Mourkoussis, ARCO-Augmented Representation of Cultural Objects, Journal Paper: Advanced Imaging Magazine 06/2003 ; pp. 14-15, 46



Application & Research Areas

  • Virtual museums and exhibitions
  • Cultural heritage digital preservation
  • Visualization of cultural heritage objects
  • VR/AR/Mobile interfaces for museums

Technical Areas

  • Virtual Reality
  • Augmented Reality
  • Dynamically generated 2D/3D content
  • X-VRML language
  • Beh-VR approach


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