HERE. Black in Rembrandt's Time aims to sabotage the stereotyped representation of Black people in visual artwork in the 17th century and present. So how are adolescents affected by this? The aim of this research is to examine the extent to which the VR representation of this exhibition by Museum Rembrandthuis affects awareness of these issues in adolescents.
Recent technology development has enabled Cultural Heritage institutes to make their digital collections more shareable, extensible and re-usable in the form of Knowledge Graphs (KGs). Different types of concepts, entities, relationships, and events are interlinked with explicit semantics in KGs. It is, however, challenging to explore such connected knowledge in an intuitive manner. Therefore, we investigate conversational AI technologies to provide meaningful, engaging and enjoyable interactions between individual visitors and the Cultural Heritage collections. By integrating a conversational museum guide into the virtual exhibitions, we hope to provide a more immersive and interactive user experience.
UTwente - Shenghui Wang, Carolien Rieffe, Delaram Javdani, Dirk Heylen
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam - Stephan Schlobach, Tilo Hartmann, Maurice Crul, Ismintha Waldring
Museum Rembrandthuis - Hester Huitema, Julia Alvares, Jaleesa Clow
Rudy Chotoe (advisor D&I)
Javdani Rikhtehgar, D., Wang, S., Huitema, H., Alvares, J., Schlobach, S., Rieffe, C., Heylen. D., (2023). Personalizing Cultural Heritage Access in a Virtual Reality Exhibition: AUser Study on Viewing Behavior and Content Preferences. In UMAP '23 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP '23 Adjunct), June 26--29, 2023, Limassol, Cyprus. ACM, New York, NY, USA 9 Pages.
