Towards Designs for Virtual Interconnected Curation Spaces of Heritage Artefacts, Experiences and Histories

Abstract

Where immersive museum and digital heritage experiences exist, they are often only available for limited project timespans and they do not generally connect to other similar experiences and artefacts, nor connect to physical museums or heritage locations. This paper presents work in progress toward the design of a prototype virtual interconnected curation space for improving the connectedness of different heritage experiences and engagements with different cultural artefacts and histories. A’vintage’ Mesopotamian serious game is explored as an exemplar interaction and candidate engagement. Experience and usability evaluations are identified and filtered to create a tractable assessment for participant testing that also aims to estimate heritage engagement.