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Augmented reality integrated with flexible electronic skin: Multi-sensory experience for digital inheritance of Hong Kong Yulan Festival intangible cultural heritage
Date Issued
2025
Publisher
Nexus Academic Press
ISSN
2978-8811
Citation
Immersive Media and User Experience, 2025, vol. 1, pp. 51-64.
Description
Open access
Type
Peer Reviewed Journal Article
Abstract
This study proposes a multi-sensory Augmented Reality (AR) system integrated with custom flexible electronic skin technology, focusing on addressing the lack of haptic feedback in the digital inheritance of the Hong Kong Yulan Festival (Hungry Ghosts Festival) intangible cultural heritage (ICH). The goal is to enhance the authenticity of user experience and cultural perception when interacting with virtual cultural relics of the Yulan Festival. By integrating AR's scene reconstruction capabilities with customizable haptic feedback technology, the system simulates the vibration physical properties and material pressure sensations of characteristic cultural relics of the Yulan Festival, compensating for the deficiency of physical interaction experience in the digital communication of ICH by traditional AR technologies. The flexible electronic skin adopts a modular design, featuring excellent wearing adaptability and environmental compatibility. Combined with the audio-visual immersion brought by AR technology, it constructs an efficient augmented reality interaction framework for technology-empowered traditional culture. Comparative experiments were conducted using the interaction with virtual cultural relics of the Hong Kong Yulan Festival as a standardized scenario, verifying the key role of haptic feedback in improving users' spatial presence, sense of participation, and cultural authenticity. This research provides an extensible technical solution for the digital inheritance of ICH, which can be widely applied to ICH interactive exhibition scenarios requiring enhanced haptic experience.
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