Mobile drama in an instrumented museum: inducing group conversation via coordinated narratives

Callaway, Charles; Stock, Oliviero; DeKoven, Elyon; Noy, Kinneret; Citron, Yael; Dobrin, Yael

doi:10.1080/13614568.2012.617844

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“…The main theme of the dramatic presentations, 2:10 C. Callaway et al as scripted by our expert writers [Callaway et al 2011], is a crisis of confidence an archaeologist has upon receiving an international award for his work in pursuing archaeology. Looking back, he believes that he may have lost touch with his motivation for pursuing archaeology, and perhaps cut corners in his rush to present his work to the public.…”

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“…This evaluation of the concept of narrative tension apart from a system implementation showed that coordinated narrative variations can in fact lead to significantly increased conversation. We then implemented the full DRAMATRIC system in a museum and conducted formative testing [Callaway et al 2012]. Next, we took the implemented system and performed a full-scale evaluation to test whether, as well as how, switching from one style of narrative variation to another would have an impact in order to inform future choices when improving system adaptivity.…”

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Experiments with Mobile Drama in an Instrumented Museum for Inducing Conversation in Small Groups

Callaway

Stock

DeKoven

2014

ACM Trans. Interact. Intell. Syst.

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Small groups can have a better museum visit when that visit is both a social and an educational occasion. The unmediated discussion that often ensues during a shared cultural experience, especially when it is with a small group whose members already know each other, has been shown by ethnographers to be important for a more enriching experience. We present DRAMATRIC, a mobile presentation system that delivers hourlong dramas to small groups of museum visitors. DRAMATRIC continuously receives sensor data from the museum environment during a museum visit and analyzes group behavior from that data. On the basis of that analysis, DRAMATRIC delivers a series of dynamically coordinated dramatic scenes about exhibits that the group walks near, each designed to stimulate group discussion. Each drama presentation contains small, complementary differences in the narrative content heard by the different members of the group, leveraging the tension/release cycle of narrative to naturally lead visitors to fill in missing pieces in their own drama by interacting with their fellow group members. Using four specific techniques to produce these coordinated narrative variations, we describe two experiments: one in a neutral, nonmobile environment, and the other a controlled experiment with a full-scale drama in an actual museum. The first experiment tests the hypothesis that narrative differences will lead to increased conversation compared to hearing identical narratives, whereas the second experiment tests whether switching from presenting a drama using one technique to using another technique for the subsequent drama will result in increased conversation. The first experiment shows that hearing coordinated narrative variations can in fact lead to significantly increased conversation. The second experiment also serves as a framework for future studies that evaluate strategies for similar adaptive systems.

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Experiments with Mobile Drama in an Instrumented Museum for Inducing Conversation in Small Groups

Callaway

Stock

DeKoven

2014

ACM Trans. Interact. Intell. Syst.

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“…The dynamics of visiting as a family group have also been well documented, with studies revealing the extreme prevalence of playful behavior with interactives and long conversations among the group [19], and the impact of parents" shaping and supporting of children"s interactions on learning [7]. Previous responses to such observations have aimed to augment social interaction in museum visiting by promoting connection with others [5] and engaging group members in a coordinated narrative to induce group conversation [4], the latter being unusual in narrative-driven directed experiences in that it required collaboration for the story to unfold.…”

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Supporting Group Coherence in a Museum Visit

Fosh

Benford

Koleva

2016

Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work &Amp; Social Computing

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Visiting museums as part of a group poses the challenge of managing engagement with exhibits while preserving group cohesion. We respond to this by reconfiguring the social dynamic of visiting with an experience designed specifically for groups, that invites the group members themselves to design and "gift" interpretations to one another. We present a trial of this experience with groups of family and friends at a museum. We show how groups managed and configured themselves during the visit, revealing the strategies involved in maintaining different group behaviors. We discuss how our design accommodated different visiting styles by making objects social and scaffolding rather than directing the group experience. We interpret our findings to frame group coherence as a flexible and configurable phenomenon within CSCW.

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“…[8]), and (c) educational goals and performance (e.g. [9], [10]). These aspects related to the notion of the narrative are nonetheless rather important.…”

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Formalization and Visualization of the Narrative for Museum Guides

Bourlakos

Wallace

Antoniou

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Semantic Keyword-Based Search on Structured Data Sources

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Abstract. There is a wide range of meta-data standards for the documentation of museum related information, such as CIDOC-CRM; these standards focus on the description of distinct exhibits. In contrast, there is a lack of standards for the digitization and documentation of the routes followed and information provided by museum guides. In this work we propose the notion of the narrative, which can be used to model a guided museum visit. We provide a formalization for the narrative so that it can be digitally encoded, and thus preserved, shared, re-used, further developed and exploited, and also propose an intuitive visualization approach.

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Mobile drama in an instrumented museum: inducing group conversation via coordinated narratives

Cited by 24 publications

References 11 publications

Experiments with Mobile Drama in an Instrumented Museum for Inducing Conversation in Small Groups

Experiments with Mobile Drama in an Instrumented Museum for Inducing Conversation in Small Groups

Supporting Group Coherence in a Museum Visit

Formalization and Visualization of the Narrative for Museum Guides

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