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Grasping Cultural Context through Multisensory Interactions

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Grasping Cultural Context through Multisensory Interactions
This paper describes the research and design of three tangible and embodied prototypes that aim to enable users to meaningfully engage with an artifact's historical context and use. Together, these prototypes engage users in a cultural heritage experience that is sensorially embodied through a ‘multimodal’ ensemble of visual, aural, tactile, and olfactory interactions. A preliminary user test suggests that future work on multisensory interaction should focus on developing accessible design principles and considerations that support a sensorially embodied and tangible understanding of historical artifacts. We suggest that multisensory interactions present significant opportunities for interactive exhibits to expand our access to cultural history and its artifacts. Author Keywords Multisensory interaction; sensory; senses; smell; tangible and embodied interfaces; cultural artifacts; experience design; interactive museum. ACM Classification Keywords
Jamie Kwan, Jean Ho Chu, Daniel Harley, Melanie Mc
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Type Journal
Year 2016
Where TEI
Authors Jamie Kwan, Jean Ho Chu, Daniel Harley, Melanie McBride, Ali Mazalek
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