Immersive Technologies for Improving Visitors’ Digital Experience in Contemporary Crafts Exhibitions – The Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools

This paper elaborates ‘craft’ from dimensions of practicality, cognition and ontology in the contemporary context based on a literature review. With reference to the existing immersive museum exhibitions of contemporary crafts worldwide, it discusses the main challenges concerning immersive exhibition innovation. The paper also indicates the potential of immersive technologies in visitors’ digital engagement in contemporary crafts exhibitions, investigates how immersive technologies may enhance visitors’ digital experience and identifies suitable solutions for meeting visitors’ expectations in the exhibition of contemporary crafts. This paper documents an analysis of research into the relationship between immersive exhibition creation and visitors’ digital experience and explores how approaches to improving visitors’ digital experience in immersive exhibition scenarios might be borne out from the dimensions of practicality, cognition and ontology

About the author

Rui Zhang

Rui Zhang recieved her 1st PhD degree from Wuhan University of Technology, China in June 2013. Her 1st PhD topic was Research on Neoteric Industrial Development Status and Design of Wuhan. After that, she has worked as a lecturer in the areas of design theory, product design and exhibition design in Hubei University of Arts and Science, China for 8 years. She worked as a visiting fellow at the University of Canberra, Australia (UC) from 2015 to 2016. She started her 2nd PhD study at UC in September 2019 and transferred to UniSA Creative in February 2022. Her 2nd PhD topic is Improving Visitors’ Immersive Experience in Online Museum Exhibitions on Australian Contemporary Craft from A Human-centred Design Perspective.

Fanke Peng

Associate Professor, Fanke Peng is a Professorial Lead and Enterprise Fellow at the University of South Australia. She is an award-winning educator, designer, and researcher in design-led innovation for social good, co-design for health and well-being, and digital fashion communication.

Ian Gwilt

Ian Gwilt is a Professor of Design in UniSA: Creative, University of South Australia, Adelaide. His current areas of research include practice and theory in visual communication design in the context of healthcare and wellbeing, the development of novel information visualization techniques to facilitate the understanding of data for non-specialist audiences, and the design of hybrid environments and experiences; interactive installations, augmented reality artefacts and locations that shape the experience of public spaces.