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    In partnership with Genesee Country Village & Museum, New York’s largest living history museum, we set out to explore the potential of augmented reality as a means for providing interactive storytelling experiences via a Virtual Historic Docent. We are developing an application that uses AR as part of a visitor engagement experience that will be deployed at the museum. We worked with the museum to select an historic figure linked to one of their buildings and developed a character to become the

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    In partnership with Genesee Country Village & Museum, New York’s largest living history museum, we set out to explore the potential of augmented reality as a means for providing interactive storytelling experiences via a Virtual Historic Docent. We are developing an application that uses AR as part of a visitor engagement experience that will be deployed at the museum. We worked with the museum to select an historic figure linked to one of their buildings and developed a character to become the

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    Frameless

    Volume 2 Issue 1 Article 18

    June 2020

    Virtual Docent for a Living History Museum


    Gary D. Jacobs
    Rochester Institute of Technology

    Juilee Decker
    Rochester Institute of Technology

    Joe Geigel
    Rochester Institute of Technology

    Amanda Doherty
    Rochester Institute of Technology

    Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.rit.edu/frameless

    Part of the Education Commons

    Recommended Citation
    Jacobs, Gary D.; Decker, Juilee; Geigel, Joe; and Doherty, Amanda (2020) "Virtual Docent for a Living
    History Museum," Frameless: Vol. 2: Iss. 1, Article 18.
    Available at: https://scholarworks.rit.edu/frameless/vol2/iss1/18

    This Demos is brought to you for free and open access by RIT Scholar Works. It has been accepted for inclusion in
    Frameless by an authorized editor of RIT Scholar Works. For more information, please contact
    ritscholarworks@rit.edu.
    Virtual Docent for a Living History Museum

    Gary D. Jacobs Juilee Decker


    Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester Institute of Technology
    Joe Geigel Amanda Doherty
    Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester Institute of Technology

    Keywords— Mixed Reality; Augmented Reality; Arts and Humanities; Media Arts; Historic Museum; Virtual Docent

    In partnership with Genesee Country


    Village & Museum, New York’s largest
    living history museum, we set out to explore
    the potential of augmented reality as a
    means for providing interactive storytelling
    experiences via a Virtual Historic Docent.
    We are developing an application that uses
    AR as part of a visitor engagement experi-
    ence that will be deployed at the museum.
    We worked with the museum to select an
    historic figure linked to one of their build-
    ings and developed a character to become
    the avatar. Research, 3-D software, audio
    recording and motion capture came together
    to create our Virtual Docent, that can be uti-
    lized through a variety of AR devices.
    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    The authors are grateful to the staff of
    Genesee Country Village & Museum, in
    particular Becky Wehle and Peter Wisbey.
    At RIT, we thank students Hannah Chase,
    Kunal Shitut, Andy Head, and David Figure 1 - Digital Avatar Example.

    1
    Vol. 2, No. 1 - 2020
    Frameless

    Munnell for their assistance in audio and


    motion capture.
    We also thank RIT museum studies stu-
    dents, Landyn Hatch, Brienna Johnson-
    Morris, and Lizzy Carr for their research
    support and demo assistance and Kather-
    ine Collett, Archivist, Hamilton College
    Archives, for research help.
    Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/
    watch?v=gtuQT4lXSL0

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