Virtual Visits: Museums Beaming in Live

Mitchell, Allyson

doi:10.1080/10598650.2019.1635369

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“…The visitors' experience is recontextualized in the digital environment, with ICTs and web‐based applications allowing people to enter in contact with the cultural heritage, without losing sight of its authenticity (Evrard & Krebs, 2018). The virtualization of the visiting experience is especially attractive for digitally adept people, who perceive peculiar needs and express distinguishing expectations as compared with conventional visitors (Mitchell, 2019). From this standpoint, it is assumed that:Hypothesis The implementation of digital services targeted to virtual visitors increases the museums and cultural institutions' attractiveness .…”

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Enhancing museums' attractiveness through digitization: An investigation of Italian medium and large‐sized museums and cultural institutions

Palumbo

2021

Journal of Tourism Research

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The Covid-19 pandemic put the museums' viability under stress, with national and supranational policies imposing closures and restricting the number of admitted visitors. Digitization enables cultural institutions to overcome such constraints, prompting innovative service delivery models. However, evidence on digitization's implications on organizational attractiveness (OA) is scant. Taking a retrospective approach, the article proposes a parallel mediation analysis to shed some light on the effects of digitization on museums' attractiveness. Findings suggest that digitization enhances OA directly and indirectly, via the delivery of digital services to physical visitors. Furthermore, digitization allows museums to meet the virtual visitors' expectations, enriching the cultural service offering.

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Enhancing museums' attractiveness through digitization: An investigation of Italian medium and large‐sized museums and cultural institutions

Palumbo

2021

Journal of Tourism Research

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“…The high proportion of participants aged between 18 and 35 is justified by their advanced digital literacy, cognitive flexibility, and active participation in social and cultural activities. As Mitchell highlighted [96], this demographic exhibits a receptive attitude towards emerging technologies and cultural products, demonstrating higher levels of engagement and learning efficiency in virtual environments. Including this group in the sample allows us to gain valuable insights into optimizing the design of virtual museums to align with future trends [97].…”

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Enhancing Spatial Cognition in Online Virtual Museum Environments: Integrating Game-Based Navigation Strategies for Improved User Experience

Zhang,

Jang

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Applied Sciences

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Online Virtual Museums (OVM) serve as vital conduits for the global propagation of cultural heritage but grapple with the challenge of user disorientation due to the absence of physical references. Leveraging the successful paradigm of game-based virtual navigation, this study investigates the potential integration of game mini-map navigation design elements into OVM to enhance spatial cognition. Through empirical investigation, a conceptual model was developed to probe the role of core mini-map design elements (interactivity, visual guidance, and information content) in augmenting spatial cognition. Results indicate that optimizing these elements significantly enhances user immersion and presence, thereby improving spatial cognition. Specifically, information content and visual guidance exerted stronger effects on immersion and presence, respectively. This research contributes a novel perspective on incorporating game design strategies into non-game virtual experiences, offering practical guidance for enhancing navigation in OVM and similar virtual environments. This bridges the gap between virtual museum navigation and game design, propelling the evolution of more dynamic, interactive, and user-centric virtual environments, thus fostering the preservation and dissemination of digital cultural heritage.

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“…While the term "virtual interaction" remains largely absent in the literature, it is used in this research as an overarching term that encompasses digital experiences created for learners to be accessed through digital technologies and that purport to offer educative experiences. As such, keywords and phrasings comprised rural and remote education (Alloway & Dalley-Trim, 2009;Reid, 2017), the use of digital technologies to overcome geographic isolation (Adlington, 2014), digital play (Verenikina & Kervin, 2011), iPads, digital play, and pre-schoolers (2011), virtual play (Burke, 2013), educational virtual reality tools (Pilgrim & Pilgrim, 2016), virtual museums (Mitchell, 2019), and learning worlds (Parsons et al, 2019). Given the focus on experiences accessible for all learners and educators in RRR communities, excluded from this review was research reporting digital interactions during physical visits, adult education, and special needs education (e.g.…”

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Investigating key principles for the design of virtual interactions for children that can support the development of oral language through play

Turner

Mantei

Kervin

2023

AJLL

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It is well established in Australian research and policy literature that children attending schools in regional, rural, and remote locations will benefit from access not only to experiences and interactions offered in their own communities but also to the sorts of experiences available to those in more populated areas of Australia as well. Virtual interactions afforded by technology are an obvious solution to achieving this access by enabling Australian classrooms to be increasingly connected. However, with the plethora on offer and little oversight of their quality, literacy educators are left to sift and sort through volumes of virtual interactions and to make decisions regarding their capacity to promote the development of oral language through play. Using a design-based research approach, this study aimed to identify in research literature key principles for the design of virtual interactions for children that can support the development of oral language through play and test them against those currently on offer. The study confirmed the value of virtual interactions as rich sources for learning that offered shared experiences built on language interactions between creators and users and giving access to new information where learning is scaffolded and understandings can be transferred from virtual to real contexts. The study also identified personal advantages that access to new physical geographies within virtual interactions can offer to those in regional, rural, and remote communities.

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Virtual Visits: Museums Beaming in Live

Cited by 5 publications

References 3 publications

Enhancing museums' attractiveness through digitization: An investigation of Italian medium and large‐sized museums and cultural institutions

Enhancing museums' attractiveness through digitization: An investigation of Italian medium and large‐sized museums and cultural institutions

Enhancing Spatial Cognition in Online Virtual Museum Environments: Integrating Game-Based Navigation Strategies for Improved User Experience

Investigating key principles for the design of virtual interactions for children that can support the development of oral language through play

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