Digitalizing the Matsu Festival Celebration---The Application of Innovative Display Model

The tradition of Matsu Worship has lasted for near one thousand years in China and Taiwan. It has been approved as an Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) by UNESCO in Aug. 2008. To record the celebrating activities of the most important religious worship, painter Lin Chin-Hsin spent 20 years to complete the giant 124 m woodcut prints “Celebrating the Matsu Festival.” It has been exhibited in important museums abroad for several times, and got international recognition. For the richness of the work, it is suitable to apply the characteristics of multi-sense and interaction in digital media to represent the cultural spirit and splendid contents. The focus of this project is to take the integration of cultural contents and information graphics, navigational design, and visual style as the design approach, and to elaborate the interactive attribute of digital media on learning, especially with motion-sensing technologies. This 3-years project is divided into three parts: (1) Information Architecture and Web Exhibition Hall: To review of related literature and works, to analyze the information architecture and design the navigation system, to design and produce the Web Exhibition Hall with the first 30 items of the prints, and to begin the system analysis of the YinMatsu (Matsu Festival Celebration) Interactive Installation; (2) Web Creative Displays and Form of the YinMatsu Interactive Installation: to continue the design and production of the Web Exhibition Hall (20 items), to design and produce the Web Creative Displays based on the contents of selected eight items of the prints, and to design and build the physical form of YinMatsu Interactive Installation; (3) Web Creative Learning and Integration of the YinMatsu Interactive Installation: to continue the design and production of the Web Exhibition Hall (17 items), to design and produce the Web Creative Learning based on the contents of four topics of the prints and Taiwanese folk culture, to integrate the contents, form, and interaction of the YinMatsu Interactive Installation, and to evaluate and discuss the acceptance of the systems with Technology Acceptance Model (TAM).

Project ID:PE10301-0065
External Project ID:NSC102-2420-H119-005-MY2