Culture & heritage / IJHCI · 2025

MemoryVR

A personal museum for your memories.

MemoryVR interfaces for adding media, personal museum environments and a visitor using VR.
MemoryVR interfaces for adding media, personal museum environments and a visitor using VR.

The research question

How can personal virtual museums help people collect, share and revisit digital memories?

What we explored

A survey of 204 people informed MemoryVR’s design. Further studies explored how people create personal museums and experience the memories shared by others.

Why this work matters

The work provides design recommendations for personal virtual museums, informed by users’ experiences, expectations and intentions to revisit.

Meet the authors

Hai-Ning Liang

Hai-Ning Liang

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