eXtended Reality Services for Outdoor Cultural Spaces: System Design and Evaluation Framework Using Unbiased Biometric Data
Zois Koukopoulos, Dimitrios K. Koukopoulos, Christos A. Fidas · 2024
The concept of enriching the visible reality with more information has led to the development of the eXtended Reality technology, where digital elements like text, images, 3D representations and virtual scenarios, are embedded to the real world and become visible to humans via mobile devices. Cultural Heritage is embracing eXtended Reality and tries to find new ways to harvest its merits in an endless struggle to disseminate cultural information to the public and the next generations. In this paper, we are presenting an innovative intelligent Environment, operating in outdoor cultural spaces and offering personalized eXtended Reality cultural experiences to visitors. The Environment aims to support the financial sustainability of cultural heritage institutes by attracting visitors and especially younger ones, as well as create new sources of revenue for cultural heritage professionals by allowing them to create XR experiences, without the help of IT professionals and exploiting them in an online market of XR cultural experiences. We propose a novel framework to evaluate the user experience by collecting biometric data (brain activity and eye behavior) from the visitors of outdoor cultural spaces and exploring their cognition and emotions while using the new Environment.