A permanently increasing graphical power of commonly used computers opens a possibility to present highly detailed and richly textured three-dimensional models of cultural complexes using the web. Utilizing virtual reality paradigms, both experts and ordinary users can explore pieces of cultural heritage in a virtual environment. This paper introduces three different approaches to cultural heri...

This paper presents a mobile phone application developed for sightseeing in Nikko, one of the cultural world heritages in Japan, using the BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) beacon. Based on our pre-research, we decided to design our application for young people who walk around the area actively, but know little about the tradition and culture of Nikko. One solution is to construct many information boa...

In spite of the variety of existing methods relatively for usability evaluation, a surprisingly limited amount of research has investigated their “quality” from a conceptual and empirical perspective Our work investigates the concept of quality for usability evaluation methods in the specific domain of web applications for cultural heritage. We define a conceptual framework for quality measurem...

This paper discusses seminal contributions by and current open challenges for CSCW in the study of cultural heritage practices. It provides an overview of key issues relating to social and cooperative interactions particularly around the design and use of technology at heritage sites that have emerged in CSCW, and pertaining the conduct of visitors, the design and evaluation of interactive inst...

Cultural heritage is neither static nor stable. There is a need to explore ways for effectively communicating with cultural heritage to tourists and society at large, in an age of immediacy, a time of multiple realities and to multi-cultural tourists. It is vital to consider cultural heritage as a creative and relational process where places and communities are constantly remade through creativ...

Introduction Wales has some of the best landscapes in Europe, including three national parks which host activities that include hill walking, canoeing, mountain biking, kayaking and climbing. Wales is also becoming more and more popular for 'extreme' sports, including surfing, hang gliding and downhill cycling. In addition, cultural, historical and industrial heritage sites in Wales attract sig...

Cultural Heritage is a group of resources identified as a reflection of certain values, beliefs, knowledge and tradition by a certain community. These resources are subject to management, preservation and diffusion through legislative and administrative means, which makes cultural heritage fall within the scope of Protected sites, one of the spatial data themes established in Annex I of the INS...