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Galleries, libraries, archives, and museums are nowadays striving to implement innovative approaches to adequately use and distribute the wealth of knowledge found in cultural heritage. A range of technologies can be used to enhance the viewing experience for visitors and boost the expertise of museologists, art historians, scholars, and audience members. The present work aims to provide an overview of current methods and most pertinent studies addressing the use of the innovative technologies for enhancing the fruition of artifacts in traditional museums in an effort to improve the public experience and education. For all the technologies discussed, the paper focuses on the main results obtained in literature and on their possible implementation in the museal context. The overview demonstrates the liveliness of the world of research in the field of technologies for the digital development of museums and how many technologies commonly used in industry are increasingly finding their way into the cultural sphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, a definition outlining the scope and goals of the field of Cognitive Aspects of Virtual Reality (cVR) is provided. Leading up to and alongside the definition, the paper includes a discussion on the background behind cVR – with a special focus on new human-AI capablities driven by cognitive, psychological, social and technological factors. Finally, the paper provides an outline of related research fields that can act as synergies in relation to cVR, while at the same time formulates questions and hypotheses that may drive future research in cVR. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]