Shaping Inclusive Futures: BHV at the Final MuseIT Event in Sweden
The MuseIT project concluded with a two-day final event in Sweden (2-3 September 2025), bringing together researchers, artists, cultural institutions, and policymakers to celebrate the project’s achievements. The event showcased how technology, creativity, and co-design can broaden access and inclusion to cultural heritage and enable richer multisensory experiences. Over the two days, the BHV team highlighted MuseIT’s vision of cultural participation that is immersive, accessible, inclusive, and emotionally meaningful.
Beyond Boundaries: Multisensory Innovations for Inclusive Futures.
At the Textile Fashion Centre in Borås, the BHV team presented the MuseIT Virtual Museum alongside its affective-computing technologies. Visitors entered a fully immersive exhibition that faithfully recreated the scale, layout, and visual richness of a physical museum. Within this virtual space, participants moved freely and explored cultural heritage artefacts in both 2D and 3D. To deepen the experience, a wearable haptic vest provided experimental tactile feedback linked to selected artworks, while the audio layer blended ambient music, text-to-speech narration for artefact descriptions, and carefully designed sound effects. Throughout the journey, non-invasive EEG, heart rate, and skin conductance sensors supported an affective-computing protocol. This approach helps evaluate spatial layout, audio design, and haptic intensity, ultimately enhancing both emotional resonance and accessibility.
Cultural Inclusion: Participatory Co-creative Engagements.
At the Röhsska Museum of Design and Craft in Göteborg, a hybrid live music performance brought together musicians both on-site and remotely. A dedicated low-latency audio link allowed the ensemble to rehearse and perform seamlessly, creating the sense of sharing the same stage despite the distance. Selected performers wore non-invasive sensors (EEG, heart rate, GSR), with real-time emotion recognition estimating their affective states from the biosignals. These emotional cues were transmitted alongside the audio, enabling musicians to perceive each other’s expressive intent and adapt their performance in real time. The result was an emotion-aware form of co-creation at a distance, demonstrating that remote performances can convey not only sound but also shared emotional context. The BHV team contributed its biosignal processing and AI expertise, supporting both the live performance and the interactive experiences for visitors.
