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WP4 focuses on providing legal assessment and frameworks for prototyped initiatives and forms of collaboration and partnerships undertaken to execute these activities. Conclusions drawn from tested cases/prototypes serve as starting points for developing further models for data sharing, enabling expanded and innovative use of digitized data through new technologies at the European level.

This report addresses a critical challenge in the digital cultural heritage sector: the disparity between file formats optimized for archival purposes and those suitable for real-time, interactive virtual environments (VE). Heritage institutions typically prioritize high-fidelity, preservation-focused formats like TIFF, RAW, PLY, and WAV to ensure long-term integrity. While essential for archives, these formats are often large and complex, rendering them inefficient for direct use in VEs that demand rapid loading and efficient GPU rendering.

In line with the aims of WP2 of the IMPULSE project, this report highlights the current technological landscape for the purpose of facilitating the development of decentralised, open-access solutions for reusing, recycling, and / or upcycling existing digitised cultural heritage content in a way that will bolster user engagement via the adoption of novel eXtended Reality (XR) technologies by cultural institutions.

This deliverable, D1.2 – Report on qualitative and quantitative UX research, presents the results of a multi-method user study conducted within Work Package 1 (WP1) – Extended Storytelling Towards Vivid User Experiences – of the IMPULSE project (GAP-101132704). The research was carried out in Task 1.1.3, coordinated by the Jagiellonian University, and aimed at identifying how diverse user groups perceive, interpret, and interact with immersive cultural heritage content.

The Deliverable 1.1 presents an overview of UX methodologies resulting from a scoping review of the available scientific and research literature, as well as from various analysis and exploration activities, a research methodology and a proposal of tools to explore the experiences, behaviours, needs and affective-cognitive factors of different user groups, as envisaged by the IMPULSE project.