[DC] Playful and Participatory Cultural Heritage Experience Using Extended Reality Technologies

Creative design and applications based on Cultural Heritage (CH) content have gradually become a new way of communicating and interpreting cultural values. The proposed research aims to improve the CH experience using extended reality (XR) technologies by investigating the digital affordances of XR technologies that can support the design of playful CH experience, and exploring appropriate ways to enable user-generated content for participatory CH experience. This is an interdisciplinary project that sits at the intersection of human-computer interaction (HCI), XR, and CH. A practice-based approach will be adopted to conduct research in the wild, designing and developing novel XR interfaces and interaction techniques for CH experiences. The combined design thinking and computational approach will allow an in-depth understanding of playful and participatory CH experience using XR technologies, providing empirical, artifact, and theoretical contributions to the fields of HCI, XR, and CH.