Browsing by Author "Aitken, Jacquie"

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    Designing a Virtual Museum Ecosystem for the Cloud
    (The Eurographics Association, 2025) Miller, Alan; Cassidy, Catherine; Pisani, Sharon; Andrei, Maria; Zhang, Junyu; Kennedy, Sarah; Oliver, Iain; Aitken, Jacquie; Williams, Ray; Martin, Vanessa; Campana, Stefano; Ferdani, Daniele; Graf, Holger; Guidi, Gabriele; Hegarty, Zackary; Pescarin, Sofia; Remondino, Fabio
    Digital exhibits are often commissioned from specialist organisations for a premium price and only available to prestigious national and international organisations that have the budget to match. Yet developments in underlying technologies, such as commodity computers, mobiles and networks, are increasingly capable of delivering rich heritage experiences. Consequently, the possibility of immersive and mobile technologies becoming part of the normal offering of community museums is in reach. A virtual museum ecosystem, which empowers community-based museums to embrace technologies to digitally enhance the capacities of a museum supporting the research, collection, curation and communication of heritage, has the potential both to contribute to sustainable development as well as mitigate against the threats to heritage.
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    Remaking Lost Communities in Virtual Cultural Landscapes
    (The Eurographics Association, 2025) Zhang, Junyu; Sturdee, Miriam; Miller, Alan; Oliver, Iain; Aitken, Jacquie; Campana, Stefano; Ferdani, Daniele; Graf, Holger; Guidi, Gabriele; Hegarty, Zackary; Pescarin, Sofia; Remondino, Fabio
    Characters in immersive, Virtual Reality environments have the potential to enrich the user experience, improving engagement with heritage, and in doing so, benefiting heritage organisations and their communities. By creating authentic digital scenes based upon archaeological and historical data, we enable these communities and their visitors to better understand the past. Often, historical reconstructions can appear empty, focused on the landscape and architecture, yet omitting animals, people and associated intangible heritage. We demonstrate the potential of enriching these reconstructions with the details of lives past.