Envisioning the Museum Voice: Mixed Reality provides interpretations of paintings

M.Des Thesis in Interaction Design, Tate Strickland. October 2016 - June 2017

http://www.tatestrickland.com/envisioning-the-museum-voice/

Thesis as PDF: http://www.tatestrickland.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/ThesisDocumentation-Final.pdf

A design concept that explores how Mixed Reality could be used in an art gallery setting. Inspired by the traditional audio guide, the system — prototyped on the Microsoft HoloLens — uses spoken narration to deliver various Art Historians’ interpretation of Jan Van Eyk’s Arnolfini Portraet, with voice and gaze as methods of input to control the experience.

Thesis Committee: Prof. Axel Roesler, Prof. Karen Cheng, Prof. Christopher Ozubko

University of Washington, Division of Design