The Scope of Multisensory Experiences in Cultural Heritage Sites

The use of technology in cultural heritage sites, like virtual reconstructions, has become a common solution to improve the communication between these spaces and their visitors. The amount of virtual information is flexible and it depends on what it is intended to transmit. Since humans perceive the world with different senses and in real-time, it is being noticeable the emergence of several applications using multisensory elements. Despite the implementations and related evaluations being scarce, the more recent studies depicts that this technology prize and enhance users' experiences when more stimuli are exploited. This paper presents a survey related to the recent studies made in this context, in order to identify the actual scope of multisensory experiences in cultural heritage sites.