Dr Ir Willemijn Elkhuizen was a researcher-in-residence at the KB in 2022.
Her project 'Capturing and interacting with multi-sensory, temporal-spatial representations of children’s ‘novelty books’' explored the question: How can we capture/create digital, multi-sensory representations of cultural heritage artifacts? And how can technologies like AR and VR be exploited to interact with these digital representations?
Project
Pop-up and movable children’s books form a unique challenge for digitization and preservation. While they are intended for physical interaction, the books themselves are often too fragile and valuable to handle. Willemijn Elkhuizen explored the possibility of using mixed reality (XR) technologies to transform these physical pop-up books into a digital, interactive experience, while taking the materiality of the artifacts into account.
In her first blog post, she introduces the research project and discusses her investigation into the ways in which children and adults interact with pop-up and movable books. The second blogpost goes into the analysis of this data, as well as the creation of an interactive XR prototype of the pop-up book ‘Tip+top boven de wolken’, from 1964, by Vojtěch Kubašta.
Blogposts
