SUSAN ALI Susan.Ali2@nottingham.ac.uk
Teaching Associate
Deepening visitor engagement with museum exhibits through hand-crafted visual markers
Ali, Susan; Koleva, Boriana; Bedwell, Ben; Benford, Steve
Authors
BORIANA KOLEVA B.KOLEVA@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Computer Science
Ben Bedwell
STEVE BENFORD steve.benford@nottingham.ac.uk
Dunford Chair in Computer Science
Abstract
Visual markers, in particular QR codes, have become widely adopted in museums to enable low cost interactive applications. However, visitors often do not engage with them. In this paper we explore the application of visual makers that can be designed to be meaningful and that can be created by visitors themselves. We study both the use of these markers as labels for portraits that link to audio recordings and as a mechanism for visitors to contribute their own reflections to the exhibition by drawing a marker and linking an audio comment. Our findings show visitors appreciated the use of the aesthetic markers and engaged with them at three levels – physical placement, aesthetic content and digital content. We suggest that these different levels need to be considered in the design of future visiting systems, which make use of such markers, to ensure they are mutually supporting in shaping the experience.
Citation
Ali, S., Koleva, B., Bedwell, B., & Benford, S. (2018). Deepening visitor engagement with museum exhibits through hand-crafted visual markers. In Proceedings of the 2018 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2018 - DIS '18 (523-534). https://doi.org/10.1145/3196709.3196786
Presentation Conference Type | Edited Proceedings |
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Conference Name | 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference DIS '18 |
Start Date | Jun 9, 2018 |
End Date | Jun 13, 2018 |
Acceptance Date | Apr 17, 2018 |
Online Publication Date | Jun 8, 2018 |
Publication Date | Jun 8, 2018 |
Deposit Date | Jun 15, 2018 |
Publicly Available Date | Jun 15, 2018 |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Pages | 523-534 |
Book Title | Proceedings of the 2018 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2018 - DIS '18 |
ISBN | 9781450351980 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1145/3196709.3196786 |
Keywords | Visual markers; mobile interaction; museums; galleries; visitor interpretation |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/937512 |
Publisher URL | https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3196786 |
Additional Information | doi:10.1145/3196709.3196786. DIS '18 Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference. New York : ACM, c2018.ISBN: 978-1-4503-5198-0 |
Contract Date | Jun 15, 2018 |
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