Assembling History

Fraser, Mike; Stanton, Danaë; Ng, Kher Hui; Benford, Steve; O’Malley, Claire; Bowers, John; Taxén, Gustav; Ferris, Kieran; Hindmarsh, Jon

doi:10.1007/978-94-010-0068-0_10

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“…[11] and [10] describe some early explorations of the use of ubiquitous computing and mixed reality technologies in, respectively, a castle and a personal collection, giving particular attention to the design of trajectories through multiple interactive 'loci' -an emphasis given further analysis by [2]. [8] has been particularly concerned to draw upon 'place geography' in design work in museum and heritage sites to create characterful and meaningful hybrid digital artefacts within them.…”

Section: The Museum and Exhibition Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Making Magic

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Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition

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This paper describes three interactive artefacts created for a children's exhibition intended to encourage creativity and allow educational opportunities to emerge naturally through playful exploration. We describe five sensibilities that were used to inform our designs: considering artefacts as resources and scaffolds for imaginative engagement, rewarding extended investment, facilitating requisite unpredictability, encouraging an imaginative orientation to participation, and permitting multiple loci for interaction. Based on observation of how our interactives were used by the public, we discuss how our approach facilitated 'open interactions' in a manner that was sensitive to the museum context, favoured a mix of materialities, and manifested a subtle mix of participation and designer autonomy.

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“…The richness and nuanced complexity of behaviours around interactives in cultural settings have been noted by many authors [e.g 2,10,11,14,15,19,21,22]…”

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“…This technological approach can substantially enhance the traditional museum experience and promote a higher level of visitor engagement in museums [6]. Such user activities may include playing games like treasure hunts [7], "Horus" [8], "Intrigue at the museum" [9], or the collection of souvenirs and photos [10]. This interactive approach is intrinsic in enhancing the overall museum experience as the majority of visitors seek highly entertaining and engaging attractions [6,11].…”

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Ambient Information Visualisation and Visitors’ Technology Acceptance of Mixed Reality in Museums

Hammady

Strathearn

2020

J. Comput. Cult. Herit.

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The visualisation of historical information and storytelling in museums is a crucial process for transferring knowledge by directly and simplistically engaging the museum audience. Until recently, technological limitations meant museums were limited to 2D and 3D screen-based information displays. However, advancements in Mixed Reality (MR) devices permit the propagation of a virtual overlay that amalgamates both real-world and virtual environments into a single spectrum. These holographical devices project a 3D space around the user which can be augmented with virtual artefacts, thus potentially changing the traditional museum visitor experience. Few research studies focus on utilising this virtual space to generate objects that do not visually inhibit or distract the operator. Therefore, this article aims to introduce the Ambient Information Visualisation Concept (AIVC) as a new form of storytelling, which can enhance the communication and interactivity between museum visitors and exhibits by measuring and sustaining an optimum spatial environment around the user. Furthermore, this article investigates the perceptual influences of AIVC on the users' level of engagement in the museum. This article utilises the Microsoft HoloLens, which is one of the most cutting-edge imagining technologies available to date, in order to deploy the AIVC in a historical storytelling scene "The Battle" in the Egyptian department at The Manchester Museum. This research further seeks to measure the user acceptance of the MR prototype by adopting the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). The operational approaches investigated in this study include personal innovativeness (PI), enjoyment (ENJ), usefulness (USF), ease of use (EOU), and willingness of future use (WFU). The population sampling methodology utilised 47 participants from the museum's daily visitors. Results of this research indicate that the WFU construct is the primary outcome of this study, followed by the usefulness factor. Further findings conclude that the majority of users found this technology highly engaging and easy to use. The combination of the proposed system and AIVC in museum storytelling has extensive applications in museums, galleries, and cultural heritage places to enhance the visitor experience.

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“…Lastly, we report on some first preliminary user testing carried out with young gamers and users and provide some concluding remarks and indications for future work. The evolution of smartphones and tablets with technologies like GPS, gyroscopes, accelerometers and AR enables the development of a new generation of games with great potential to be applied in location-based experiences [9]. For instance, gamified tour experiences can be tailored to visitors by calculating their position and orientations.…”

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“…Examples include, Mehringplatz neighbourhood in Berlin [12] or the convent of São Francisco in Funchal [13] helping not only in the narrative of the stories but also facilitating acquisition of knowledge in regards to the physical space. In addition, many experiences are designed to work using different platforms that complement the participant interaction within the physical space, making connections between displays, context-aware, storytelling, and historical events [9]. Recently several research projects developed around context-aware experiences and personalising edutainment in cultural heritage grounds.…”

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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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Assembling History

Cited by 42 publications

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Ambient Information Visualisation and Visitors’ Technology Acceptance of Mixed Reality in Museums

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