Dear Colleagues,
Museums and cultural heritage sites have often experimented with digital technologies as a way of providing new means of engaging with visitors. This has included a variety of different forms of interaction, whether on-site during a visit, or online before or after the visit. Ranging from mobile apps, through interactive tables, tangible interaction and on-line post-visit experiences, these technologies have aimed to engage visitors in new and interesting ways and to promote interaction with heritage in a different way to the more traditional museum text label. The increasing development of IoT technologies offers huge potential for cultural heritage sites to extend the ways in which they use such new technologies and the possibilities that they offer both for visitors and for the heritage sites themselves. IoT also enables heritage organisations to gather data about how visitors interact with the heritage on display, to personalise the visitor experience, and to extend the visit past the on-site interaction to other aspects of visitors’ lives.
This special issue offers an opportunity to discuss the ways in which IoT and cultural heritage can interact and the impact that each field can have on the other, whether from a technological, heritage, business, artistic or other perspective. We welcome submissions (from any domain) that focus on the potential offered by IoT in the cultural heritage sector.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Dr. Mark T Marshall
Guest Editor
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