Arts Computing; Chinese Culture; Cross-cultural Appreciation; Digital Cultural Heritages; Digital Gestural Library; Digital Libraries; Digital Technologies; Intangible Cultural Heritage; Intangible Cultural Heritages; Interaction Design; Tangible Interfaces; Traditional Chinese Puppetry;

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10.1145/3341882

In recent years, digital cultural heritage has attracted much attention in the HCI domain, but there are currently few studies that focus on enhancing the appreciation of intangible cultural heritage content amongst cross-cultural audiences. This article reports on the development of a Digital Gesture Library to support cross-cultural appreciation of traditional Chinese puppetry. We describe fieldwork with professional puppeteers to understand their practices and art form, which informed the development of the Digital Gesture Library, which uses a three-perspective archive of puppetry gestures and a tangible interface to support cross-cultural audiences' appreciation of puppetry and encourages further exploration of Chinese culture. We present findings on the efficacy of the Digital Gesture Library from qualitative and quantitative user studies and, from this, discuss the opportunities and challenges for developing digital technology for cross-cultural appreciation of intangible heritage.