What is it about?
This paper presents a prototype to explore online heritage collections on the Web using physical objects that act as the main interface with the computer. This research facilitates the conceptual, contextual and technical engagement behind the data and metadata used to describe collections in knowledgebases related to cultural heritage.
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Why is it important?
In the Human Information Interaction and Human Computer Interaction fields, there is an overwhelming use of Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) paradigms, where Tangible User Interfaces (TUI) remain relatively novel and underexplored. However, there is a growing set of evidence on the benefits around embodied cognition where physical objects can help offloading cognitive tasks onto the physical tools, and thus alleviating complexity.
Perspectives
Tangible User Interfaces (TUI) remain relatively unexplored. However, they offer a very positive range of benefits when engaging with complex datasets. Benefits such as Embodied Cognition have showed that users can offload the mental complexity onto the physical tools and segment their thinking strategies as well and replace concepts related to the knowledgebases. I believe that TUIs can help facilitating Linked Data GLAM engagement to general audiences. However, we still need to identify how to distribute them. For this, this research also tangentially explores such distribution by using of the shelf electronics, standard Web scripts and paper based tools.
Javier Pereda
Liverpool John Moores University
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This page is a summary of: A TUI to Explore Cultural Heritage Repositories on the Web, March 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3294109.3301000.
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