Deepening visitor engagement with museum exhibits through hand-crafted visual markers

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 visit...

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Main Authors:	Ali, Susan, Koleva, Boriana, Bedwell, Ben, Benford, Steve
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	2018
Online Access:	http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52439/ http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52439/ http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52439/ http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52439/1/VisitorEngagementVisualMarkersFinalAuthor.pdf

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spelling	nottingham-524392018-07-02T09:20:26Z http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52439/ Deepening visitor engagement with museum exhibits through hand-crafted visual markers Ali, Susan Koleva, Boriana Bedwell, Ben Benford, Steve 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. 2018-06-13 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52439/1/VisitorEngagementVisualMarkersFinalAuthor.pdf Ali, Susan and Koleva, Boriana and Bedwell, Ben and Benford, Steve (2018) Deepening visitor engagement with museum exhibits through hand-crafted visual markers. In: 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference DIS '18, 9-13 June, 2018, Hong Kong, China. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3196786 10.1145/3196709.3196786 10.1145/3196709.3196786 10.1145/3196709.3196786
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description	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.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Ali, Susan Koleva, Boriana Bedwell, Ben Benford, Steve
spellingShingle	Ali, Susan Koleva, Boriana Bedwell, Ben Benford, Steve Deepening visitor engagement with museum exhibits through hand-crafted visual markers
author_facet	Ali, Susan Koleva, Boriana Bedwell, Ben Benford, Steve
author_sort	Ali, Susan
title	Deepening visitor engagement with museum exhibits through hand-crafted visual markers
title_short	Deepening visitor engagement with museum exhibits through hand-crafted visual markers
title_full	Deepening visitor engagement with museum exhibits through hand-crafted visual markers
title_fullStr	Deepening visitor engagement with museum exhibits through hand-crafted visual markers
title_full_unstemmed	Deepening visitor engagement with museum exhibits through hand-crafted visual markers
title_sort	deepening visitor engagement with museum exhibits through hand-crafted visual markers
publishDate	2018
url	http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52439/ http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52439/ http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52439/ http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52439/1/VisitorEngagementVisualMarkersFinalAuthor.pdf
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Deepening visitor engagement with museum exhibits through hand-crafted visual markers

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