Viewing Chinese Art on an Interactive Tabletop

Author

Chun-ko Hsieh ; Yi-Ping Hung ; Ben-Ezra, M. ; Hsin-Fang Hsieh

Author_Institution

Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

Volume

33

Issue

3

fYear

2013

fDate

May-June 2013

Firstpage

16

Lastpage

21

Abstract

To protect fragile paintings and calligraphy, Taiwan´s National Palace Museum (NPM) has policies controlling the frequency and duration of their exposure. So, visitors might not see the works they planned to see. To address this problem, the NPM installed an interactive tabletop for viewing the works. This tabletop, the first to feature multiresolution and gigapixel photography technology, displays extremely high-quality images revealing brushwork-level detail. A user study at the NPM examined the tabletop´s performance and collected visitor feedback.

Keywords

art; image resolution; microcomputers; Chinese art; Taiwan National Palace Museum; brushwork-level detail; calligraphy; extremely high-quality images; fragile paintings; gigapixel photography technology; interactive tabletop; multiresolution photography technology; Art; Digital art; Haptic interfaces; Human computer interaction; Interactive systems; Interface states; Chinese art; calligraphy; computer graphics; gigapixel; human-computer interaction; interactive tabletops; interfaces; multiresolution; multitouch;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0272-1716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCG.2013.50

Filename

6516499