XR technologies for self-regulated student exhibitions in art education: survey and first design considerations

This paper provides a survey of the first results of an EU-funded research project, namely CREAMS that aims to design, develop and evaluate a framework and open-source tools based on virtual, augmented, and mixed reality for the creation of virtual exhibitions for art students. The virtual exhibitions will exploit the potential of digital technology to provide rich, multilayered, multimodal content such as digital narratives, that will contextualize the artworks, offer additional material, and engage audiences in more meaningful ways. Specifically, in this paper, we present a literature review concerning system designs, implementations, and best practices of XR technologies usage in art education for exhibition purposes. Our findings are then filtered based on experts' feedback for triangulation purposes. Based on the finding of this preliminary user requirement analysis, we propose a first conceptual design of the envisioned system, along with a number of motivating scenarios emphasizing the main system functionalities. This is the first step of a user-centered design methodology we aim to apply throughout the building of the CREAMS framework.