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From sharing to gifting: A web app for deepening engagement (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Adams, M., Spence, J., Clark, S., Farr, J. R., Benford, S., & Tandavanitj, N. (2020). From sharing to gifting: A web app for deepening engagement. In EVA London 2020: Electronic Visualisation & the Arts. , (48-49). https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2020.7

Visitors currently use social media to share their experiences in museums, but these interactions are often short, quick and superficial. Is it possible to transform the impulse to share into an act of generosity, deepening engagement with museum col... Read More about From sharing to gifting: A web app for deepening engagement.

VRtefacts: Performative Substitutional Reality with Museum Objects (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Spence, J., Darzentas, D. P., Huang, Y., Cameron, H. R., Beestin, E., & Benford, S. (2020). VRtefacts: Performative Substitutional Reality with Museum Objects. In DIS '20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (627-640). https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395459

We explore how a combination of manipulations and transitions can extend Substitutional Reality to create a highly personal Virtual Reality experience. Our design aimed to meet two challenges faced by museums: the limitations of object handling and t... Read More about VRtefacts: Performative Substitutional Reality with Museum Objects.