Mixed reality technologies are already widely used in the Cultural Heritage field, especially in museums to make the exhibition more entertaining and enjoyable for the visitors. In order to inform the visitor about the displayed exhibition piece or about the event happened, museums often use the storytelling method, particularly with texts, images and videos. There are currently no conceptual and technical solutions to put a paper map in such a mixed reality environment to tell a story in a museum. Additionally, there is no research investigating if building an interactive environment around the cartographic piece of art could be useful for cultural heritage interpretation. This thesis investigates how a paper map can be projected and enhanced with interactive layers in such an environment, called Spatial Augmented Reality (AR). Furthermore, this thesis evaluates the impact of this method in the user experience. In a first step, the hardware and software technology suitable for the realization of an example exhibition was investigated and finally selected. The way of user interactions in the AR space were defined, as well as types of connected media that could be integrated in the exhibition were explored. Two prototypes have been built using the example of the map of Charles Minard “Napoleon ventured East”. One prototype placed the map in a Spatial AR environment, the other one presented the map in a classical exhibition example. Finally, both exhibitions have been evaluated by 25 exhibition visitors within a comparative study. Users have been asked to solve various tasks and comment on their experience. The results show that the visitors liked both exhibition samples with a slightly better result of the Spatial AR realization in terms of task solving. Additionally, the users confirmed that using paper maps in such an environment makes the exhibition more entertaining and is enhancing the potential museums visitors experience.     «

Mixed reality technologies are already widely used in the Cultural Heritage field, especially in museums to make the exhibition more entertaining and enjoyable for the visitors. In order to inform the visitor about the displayed exhibition piece or about the event happened, museums often use the storytelling method, particularly with texts, images and videos. There are currently no conceptual and technical solutions to put a paper map in such a mixed reality environment to tell a story in a mu...     »