Artists: a virtual reality cultural experience personalized artworks system: the “children concert” painting case study

In recent years, there is a constant tendency in integrating modern technologies into mobile guides and applications in Cultural Heritage (CH) domain, aiming in enriching cultural user experience. Amongst them, Virtual Reality (VR) has widely been used in digital reconstruction or restoration of damaged cultural artifacts and monuments, allowing a deeper perception in their characteristics and unique history. This work presents a VR environment that takes into account the diverse needs and characteristics of visitors and digitally immerses them into paintings, giving them the ability to directly interact with their characteristics with the Leap Motion controller. To test our proposed system, a mobile prototype application has been designed, focused on the famous painting “Children Concert” created by Georgios Iakovidis, which also integrates the User Personas and the different scenarios depending on users’ profile.