3D Visual Interaction for Cultural Heritage Sector

During the past three decades, digital cultural heritage deployment in the communication domain has changed significantly. One of the main interests of heritage curation institutions and research is to implement user-friendly 3D visual interaction system to museums visitors. In this chapter, we firstly reviewed human-computer interaction techniques used in the cultural heritage sector, followed by details of hand gesture recognition applications implemented in the cultural heritage context. In attempting to improve user experiences for 3D visual interaction in a cultural heritage, we designed efficient processing pipeline to address the system usability and cost-effectiveness concerns. The presented work of visual interaction system is evaluated in terms of user’s experience. The evaluation results showed the effectiveness of the proposed framework in offering a high-quality visual experience with a speedy response time of the interaction system.