The Audible Artefact: Promoting Cultural Exploration and Engagement with Audio Augmented Reality

Cliffe, Laurence; Mansell, James; Cormac, Joanne; Greenhalgh, Chris; Hazzard, Adrian

Abstract

This paper introduces two ongoing projects where audio augmented reality is implemented as a means of engaging museum and gallery visitors with audio archive material and associated objects, artworks and artefacts. It outlines some of the issues surrounding the presentation and engagement with sound based material within the context of the cultural institution, discusses some previous and related work on approaches to the cultural application of audio augmented reality, and describes the research approach and methodology currently engaged with in developing an increased understanding in this area. Additionally, it discusses the project within the context of related cultural and sound studies literature, presents some initial conclusions as a result of a practice-based approach, and outlines the next steps for the project.

Citation

Cliffe, L., Mansell, J., Cormac, J., Greenhalgh, C., & Hazzard, A. (2019). The Audible Artefact: Promoting Cultural Exploration and Engagement with Audio Augmented Reality. In Proceedings of AM '19, Nottingham, United Kingdom, September 18-20, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3356590.3356617

• Conference Name: Audio Mostly 2019
• Conference Location: Nottingham, UK
• Start Date: Sep 18, 2019
• End Date: Sep 20, 2019
• Acceptance Date: Aug 3, 2019
• Publication Date: Sep 20, 2019
• Deposit Date: Oct 31, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 31, 2019
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Book Title: Proceedings of AM '19, Nottingham, United Kingdom, September 18-20, 2019
• ISBN: 9781450372978
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3356590.3356617
• Keywords: CCS CONCEPTS Human-centered computing • Ubiquitous and mobile computing • Empirical studies in ubiquitous and mobile computing KEYWORDS Audio; soundscape; locative; augmented; cultural; experience
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3000718
• Related Public URLs: https://audiomostly.com/2019/program/conference-program/