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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| author | Ali, Susan Koleva, Boriana Bedwell, Ben Benford, Steve |
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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. |
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| spelling | nottingham-524392020-05-04T19:40:15Z https://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 Ali, Susan, Koleva, Boriana, 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. Visual markers; mobile interaction; museums; galleries; visitor interpretation https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3196786 10.1145/3196709.3196786 10.1145/3196709.3196786 10.1145/3196709.3196786 |
| spellingShingle | Visual markers; mobile interaction; museums; galleries; visitor interpretation Ali, Susan Koleva, Boriana Bedwell, Ben Benford, Steve Deepening visitor engagement with museum exhibits through hand-crafted visual markers |
| title | 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_short | Deepening visitor engagement with museum exhibits through hand-crafted visual markers |
| title_sort | deepening visitor engagement with museum exhibits through hand-crafted visual markers |
| topic | Visual markers; mobile interaction; museums; galleries; visitor interpretation |
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