Outputs (6)

Interfacing with history: curating with audio augmented objects (2024)
Journal Article
Cliffe, L. (2024). Interfacing with history: curating with audio augmented objects. Museum Management and Curatorship, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/09647775.2024.2431899

This article presents and discusses the results from visitors’ interactions with two audio augmented reality experiences containing audio augmented objects; physical, real-world objects to which virtual audio sources have been attached. It then proce... Read More about Interfacing with history: curating with audio augmented objects.

The sound heritage of Kotagede: the evolving soundscape of a living museum (2024)
Journal Article
Mediastika, C. E., Sudarsono, A. S., Utami, S. S., Setiawan, T., Mansell, J. G., Santosa, R. B., Wiratama, A., Yanti, R. J., & Cliffe, L. (2024). The sound heritage of Kotagede: the evolving soundscape of a living museum. Built Heritage, 8(1), Article 38. https://doi.org/10.1186/s43238-024-00145-0

Kotagede, the capital of the ancient Mataram Kingdom and currently an area in the Yogyakarta Province of Indonesia, is known as a ‘real living museum’. It was previously a residential area with many vital premises and heritage buildings that became a... Read More about The sound heritage of Kotagede: the evolving soundscape of a living museum.

Into the Here and Now: Explorations within a New Acoustic Virtual Reality (2024)
Journal Article
Cliffe, L. (in press). Into the Here and Now: Explorations within a New Acoustic Virtual Reality. Leonardo,

The author reflects upon listeners’ experiences and the practice of developing a number of audio augmented reality sound installations deployed between 2019 and 2020. The installations realized audio augmented objects: physical real-world objects aug... Read More about Into the Here and Now: Explorations within a New Acoustic Virtual Reality.

Crafting Trajectories of Smart Phone Use at the Opera (2022)
Journal Article
Greenhalgh, C., Hazzard, A., Benford, S., Cliffe, L., & Kelly, E. (2022). Crafting Trajectories of Smart Phone Use at the Opera. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 29(6), 1-37. https://doi.org/10.1145/3531007

Losing Her Voice is a new opera which highlights the challenges of subtly interweaving digital technologies into established cultural forms. Audience members were encouraged to use their own mobile phones to interact with on-stage projections before,... Read More about Crafting Trajectories of Smart Phone Use at the Opera.

Materialising contexts: virtual soundscapes for real-world exploration (2020)
Journal Article
Cliffe, L., Mansell, J., Greenhalgh, C., & Hazzard, A. (2021). Materialising contexts: virtual soundscapes for real-world exploration. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 25(4), 623-636. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-020-01405-3

© 2020, The Author(s). This article presents the results of a study based on a group of participants’ interactions with an experimental sound installation at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford, UK. The installation used audio augmented... Read More about Materialising contexts: virtual soundscapes for real-world exploration.

The Audible Artefact: Promoting Cultural Exploration and Engagement with Audio Augmented Reality (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cliffe, L., Mansell, J., Cormac, J., Greenhalgh, C., & Hazzard, A. (2019, September). The Audible Artefact: Promoting Cultural Exploration and Engagement with Audio Augmented Reality. Presented at Audio Mostly 2019, Nottingham, UK

This paper introduces two ongoing projects where audio augmented reality is implemented as a means of engaging museum and gallery visitors with audio archive material and associated objects, artworks and artefacts. It outlines some of the issues surr... Read More about The Audible Artefact: Promoting Cultural Exploration and Engagement with Audio Augmented Reality.