Improving Enjoyment of Cultural Heritage Through Recommender Systems, Virtual Tour, and Digital Storytelling

M. Casillo, F. Colace, A. Lorusso, D. Santaniello, C. Valentino

2025

Abstract

The integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) within the world of cultural heritage has the role of added value for its enhancement. In particular, improving the enjoyment of cultural Points of Interest by suggesting personalized routes allows for better interaction between users and the cultural site. To this end, this paper aims to introduce an architecture that, by employing Recommendation Systems integrated with the Situation Awareness paradigm, allows for the identification of personalized paths for users through the acquisition of data through smart sensors, which is then processed through the proposed approach, defined as a Multilevel Graph (MuG) approach. This aims to filter through the data’s context and ontological layers to its processing through the Bayesian network, which is identified through structural learning algorithms integrated with the domain’s semantic knowledge. The architecture also incorporates physical and virtual experiences, exploiting the advantages of virtual tours and involving users more by employing digital storytelling techniques. Testing of the proposed architecture based on the MuG approach took place through an offline experiment aimed at evaluating the accuracy of the approach used and an online experiment to test the validity of the designed architecture.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Casillo M., Colace F., Lorusso A., Santaniello D. and Valentino C. (2025). Improving Enjoyment of Cultural Heritage Through Recommender Systems, Virtual Tour, and Digital Storytelling. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 1: ICPRAM; ISBN 978-989-758-730-6, SciTePress, pages 263-271. DOI: 10.5220/0013176000003905

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icpram25,
author={M. Casillo and F. Colace and A. Lorusso and D. Santaniello and C. Valentino},
title={Improving Enjoyment of Cultural Heritage Through Recommender Systems, Virtual Tour, and Digital Storytelling},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 1: ICPRAM},
year={2025},
pages={263-271},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013176000003905},
isbn={978-989-758-730-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 1: ICPRAM
TI - Improving Enjoyment of Cultural Heritage Through Recommender Systems, Virtual Tour, and Digital Storytelling
SN - 978-989-758-730-6
AU - Casillo M.
AU - Colace F.
AU - Lorusso A.
AU - Santaniello D.
AU - Valentino C.
PY - 2025
SP - 263
EP - 271
DO - 10.5220/0013176000003905
PB - SciTePress