Exploring relationships between museum artefacts through spatial interaction

Ali, Susan; Bedwell, Ben; Koleva, Boriana

Abstract

We propose a novel approach, which involves visitors physically manipulating visual representations of artefacts and scanning with their mobile phone different groups or sequences of items in order to reveal digital information about their relationships. To explore this interaction mechanism we collaborated with a museum to develop an interactive paper map, on which visitors can place tangible representations of artefacts and scan the resulting arrangements. Based on an in-situ study of its use, we reveal that museum visitors engaged in different strategies for exploration of relationships between artefacts in the museum collection (inspection, strategic and experimental configuration), and for social collaboration (sharing the interaction space, adopting interaction roles and sharing a reaction to the "reveal"). We discuss how future interactive installations can accommodate these behaviours.

Citation

Ali, S., Bedwell, B., & Koleva, B. (2018). Exploring relationships between museum artefacts through spatial interaction. In NordiCHI '18: Proceedings of the 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (224-235). https://doi.org/10.1145/3240167.3240217

• Conference Name: NordiCHI'18: Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
• Conference Location: Oslo, Norway
• Start Date: Sep 29, 2018
• End Date: Oct 3, 2018
• Acceptance Date: Jun 1, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Oct 1, 2018
• Publication Date: Sep 29, 2018
• Deposit Date: Oct 17, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 17, 2018
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Pages: 224-235
• Series Title: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
• Book Title: NordiCHI '18: Proceedings of the 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
• Chapter Number: 13
• ISBN: 9781450364379
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3240167.3240217
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1170906
• Publisher URL: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3240217