Analysing Texts and Drawings: The Teenage Perspective on Enjoyable Museum Experiences

Cesário, Vanessa

doi:10.14236/ewic/hci2018.215

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“…Participants' writing was transcribed while graphic elements were coded. Text and graphics were brought together in the same data set to identify the categories and themes emerging from what the teenagers considered to be enjoyable, interactive apps for museums (details in [13]).…”

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“…The results of the co-design sessions (see [13,14,16]) suggested that teenagers particularly appreciate mobile experiences that include novel technologies, in particular Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR); they are also keen to share their experiences via social media; they favor options for different tours to engage with different content; and suggest a mix of stories and games (they proposed games with treasure-hunts, competition, timeout and collection strategies; and stories that give the opportunity to become protagonists of the experience, engage directly with the exhibits and connect to it emotionally when possible). All these elements that emerged as important in the creative phase were taken into account in the design phase discussed next.…”

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Teenage Visitor Experience: Classification of Behavioral Dynamics in Museums

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Petrelli

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2020

Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Teenagers' engagement in museums is much talked about but little research has been done to understand their behavior and inform design. Findings from co-design sessions with teenagers suggested they value games and stories when thinking about enjoyable museum tours. Informed by these findings and working with a natural history museum, we designed: a story-based tour (Turning Point) and a game-based tour (Haunted Encounters), informed by similar content. The two strategies were evaluated with 78 teenagers (15-19 years old) visiting the museum as part of an educational school trip. We assessed teenagers' personality in class; qualitative and quantitative data on their engagement, experience, and usability of the apps were collected at the museum. The triangulation of quantitative and qualitative data show personality traits mapping into different behaviors. We offer implications for the design of museum apps targeted to teenagers, a group known as difficult to reach.

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Section: Co-designing With Teenagersmentioning

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Section: Co-designing With Teenagersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Teenage Visitor Experience: Classification of Behavioral Dynamics in Museums

Cesário

Petrelli

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2020

Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…According to formal studies about teenage preferences regarding museum engagement, Cesário et al [8,9] identified that teenage audiences particularly appreciate mobile experiences that include 1) Gaming and storytelling aspects, 2) Interaction elements, 3) Social media connections, and 4) Museum and exhibits relevant information. To contribute in filling in the gap regarding teenage engagement in museums, we designed the Memories of Carvalhal's Palace dual experience, geared towards better understanding teenagers' preferences and needs in museum contexts.…”

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Memories of Carvalhal’s Palace: Haunted Encounters, a Museum Experience to Engage Teenagers

Cesário

Trindade²,

Olim³

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Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2019

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While museums are making great efforts in updating their communication and engagement strategies to include a wide variety of publics, teenagers (15-19) are still identified as an audience group that is often excluded from a museum's curatorial strategies. As consequence, this audience appears to be generally disinterested in what museums might offer. Our installation, deployed at the Natural History Museum of Funchal (NHMF), in Portugal, makes use of mobile interactive technologies and gaming strategies to promote more engaging museum experiences for teenage visitors. Memories of Carvalhal's Palace: Haunted Encounters is a location-based game that prompts teenagers to uncover the science in the museum, through investigating the site, which is presented as haunted. In order to complete the quest, the audience needs to find and collect scientific information about specific exhibits while interacting with their Augmented Reality (AR) three-dimensional (3D) models. The audience's interactions with the museum exhibits are rewarded with pieces of a map, which when completed, will guide them to the hidden scientific library where they can finally unlock the mysteries they have been trying to solve.

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“…According to formal studies about teenage preferences regarding museum engagement, Cesário et al [29], [30] identified that mobile experience for museum's teenage audiences should first and foremost include 1) Gaming and storytelling aspects, secondarily teens look for 2) Interaction elements, 3) and Social media connections and last but not least 4) Museum and exhibits relevant information. Based on these findings and in accordance with the museum goals, the authors in collaboration with a team of creatives and developers, designed Memories of Carvalhal's Palace -Haunted Encounters, an interactive mobile game experience, engaging teens in solving a mystery thorough exploring the museum and its embalmed species collection.…”

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Augmented Reality Museum’s Gaming for Digital Natives: Haunted Encounters in the Carvalhal’s Palace

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Cesário²,

Nunes³

2019

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Memories of Carvalhal's Palace -Haunted Encounters is an Augmented Reality (AR) location-based game which involves players in uncovering the mystery behind the haunted aspects of a museum premises. The game deployed at the Natural History Museum of Funchal makes use of mobile interactive AR and gaming strategies to promote the engagement of teenage visitors (digital natives) in museum experiences. Through this game, the audience embarks in a journey through the museum spaces, collecting scientific information about selected exhibits, while interacting with their tridimensional (3D) AR models. The audience's interactions with the museum exhibits are rewarded with pieces of a map, which will guide them to a hidden location, the scientific library of the museum. There participants can finally unlock the mysteries they have been summoned to solve. The game's goal stems from the fact that digital native teenagers are identified as an audience group that is often excluded from a museum's curatorial strategies [1] and as consequence, they appears to be generally disinterested in what museums might offer [2]. In this article, we present the description and rational behind Memories of Carvalhal's Palace: Haunted Encounters mobile gaming application and then discuss the results of first empirical tests performed to evaluate the usefulness and usability of the game.

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Analysing Texts and Drawings: The Teenage Perspective on Enjoyable Museum Experiences

Cited by 6 publications

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Teenage Visitor Experience: Classification of Behavioral Dynamics in Museums

Teenage Visitor Experience: Classification of Behavioral Dynamics in Museums

Memories of Carvalhal’s Palace: Haunted Encounters, a Museum Experience to Engage Teenagers

Augmented Reality Museum’s Gaming for Digital Natives: Haunted Encounters in the Carvalhal’s Palace

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