MuseIT - Multisensory, User-centred, Shared cultural Experiences through Interactive Technologies
This session will present the ongoing work of MuseIT, a Horizon Europe project which develops methodologies, services and technologies that will facilitate accessibility of cultural heritage and extend participation and inclusion for everyone; enrich cultural experiences and engagements; and generate tailored multimodal representations (e.g., 3D models for haptics, music, sound), at scale, in an interoperable and reusable way, according to the FAIR data principles.
MuseIT addresses three main challenges:
1) Extending accessibility of cultural assets: done by developing multisensory representations and alternative expressions, brought together in an integrated, interactive and immersive user experience environment (AR/VR, haptic). This aims to enable engagement by the public regardless of functional or sensory impairments, based on their own needs and preferences.
2) Broadening engagement and cultural co-creation: access to cultural heritage remains limited for those with disabilities, and participation in creative production of cultural assets has many barriers (e.g., due to mobility issues, lack of accessible tools and technologies to enable co-creation from distance). MuseIT proposes an accessible platform for co-creation and performance of music from a distance with perceived zero latency which incorporates tools for intricate emotional communications and exchange of alerts and cues needed for enabling performances from distance.
3) Extending methodologies for inclusive preservation of cultural heritage: will include ways of improving accessibility to preserved material, and will enable storage of layered multisensory representations in an integrated way, including means of storing and preserving haptic information.
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