Usability evaluation of a virtual museum interface

The Augmented Representation of Cultural Objects (ARCO) system provides software and interface tools to museum curators to develop virtual museum exhibitions, as well as a virtual environment for museum visitors over the World Wide Web or in informative kiosks. The main purpose of the system is to offer an enhanced educative and entertaining experience to virtual museum visitors. In order to assess the usability of the system, two approaches have been employed: a questionnaire based survey and a Cognitive Walkthrough session. Both approaches employed expert evaluators, such as domain experts and usability experts. The result of this study shows a fair performance of the followed approach, as regards the consumed time, financial and other resources, as a great deal of usability problems has been uncovered and many aspects of the system have been investigated. The knowledge gathered aims at creating a conceptual framework for diagnose usability problems in systems in the area of Virtual Cultural Heritage

Metadata Requirements for Digital Museum Environments

An invited seminar given at the Computer Science Department, University of Bath, 9th January 200

Building Virtual Museum Exhibitions with ARCO:25 Years of Computer Graphics

An invited presentation to celebrate 25 years of computer graphics at the Media Technology Research Centre, University of Bat

Building Virtual Museum Exhibitions

Presented at Museum Association Conference, MACE 200