‘Tangible Pasts’: User-centred Design of a Mixed Reality Application for Cultural Heritage
Angeliki Chrysanthi, Costas Papadopoulos, Tom Frankland, Graeme P. Earl · Amsterdam University Press eBooks · 2014
Tangible Pasts is a Mixed Reality (MR) prototype that combines a tangible interface with virtual content. The physical object, a book, enables users to manipulate the virtual models in real time by their actions performed in the physical world. This paper presents an overview of designing the prototype, and the evaluation of this application by participants who tested its usability and interpretive value. It also presents some preliminary results of the second round of design and evaluation. The attention is stressed on the importance of performing constant user evaluations in parallel to the design of the prototype in order to produce an application that is usable and of benefit to archaeological research and interpretation of cultural heritage knowledge.