A Framework for Design and Evaluation of Digital Museums in Second Life as Learning Institutions

Author

Sookhanaphibarn, Kingkarn ; Thawonmas, Ruck

Author_Institution

Dept. of Human & Comput. Intell., Ritsumeikan Univ., Kusatsu, Japan

fYear

2009

fDate

12-14 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1130

Lastpage

1133

Abstract

Over two decades, a great expectation on digital museums has been addressed, but most implementation platform has been Web technologies. Emerging second life which supports rich communication, virtual collaboration, and 3D content creation has carried out a new platform of digital museums. This paper investigates the requirement of idealized digital museums to improve the percentage of returning visitors and to impress the first-time visitors. The framework for design and evaluation of digital museums in second life as learning institutions is elaborated and discussed in the paper.

Keywords

Internet; computer aided instruction; digital libraries; exhibitions; groupware; humanities; virtual reality; 3D content creation; Web technology; digital museum; learning institution; rich communication; second life; virtual collaboration; Availability; Collaboration; Competitive intelligence; Digital signal processing; Humans; Internet; Laboratories; Scholarships; Second Life; Signal design; digital museum; framework of design and evaluation; second life; visitor type classification;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, 2009. IIH-MSP '09. Fifth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kyoto

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4717-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3762-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IIH-MSP.2009.194

Filename

5337596