Designing ubiquitous computing to enhance children's interaction in museums

Hall, Tony; Bannon, Liam J.

doi:10.1145/1109540.1109549

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“…In particular, we explored forms of tangible interaction with the digital artefacts [11,13]. Tangible interaction differs from conventional interaction in terms of the behaviour of control devices and the resulting digital effects.…”

Section: -Multi-modalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Interaction paradigms in technology-enhanced social spaces

Garzotto

Rizzo

2007

Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces

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This paper investigates, through a case study, the interaction paradigms that can be adopted in a museum exhibition involving hybrid interactive artifacts, i.e., installations that support visitors manipulating and interacting with physical and digital exhibits [6], [1]. We discuss the design principles and solutions we adopted in a temporary exhibition titled "The Fire and The Mountain", where we integrated technological and physical artifacts within a multisensory exhibition space to foster enjoyment, engagement, and, ultimately, learning, and to promote a variety of social behaviors among visitors interacting together and with hybrid exhibits. We also discuss a field study we carried on to evaluate the user experience in "The Fire and the Mountain", and the lessons we learnt.

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Section: -Multi-modalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Interaction paradigms in technology-enhanced social spaces

Garzotto

Rizzo

2007

Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces

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“…Hall and Bannon [113,114] provide guidelines for interactive museum exhibits. They recommend using a compelling narrative, making the exhibit inviting, allowing children to contribute to the exhibit, making sure technology does not get in the way of the experience, providing multisensory experiences, supporting both individuals and groups, supporting exploration, and incorporating the participation of experts.…”

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confidence: 99%

Interaction Design and Children

Hourcade

2007

FNT in Human-Computer Interaction

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Children are increasingly using computer technologies as reflected in reports of computer use in schools in the United States. Given the greater exposure of children to these technologies, it is imperative that they be designed taking into account children's abilities, interests, and developmental needs. This survey aims to contribute toward this goal through a review of research on children's cognitive and motor development, safety issues related to technologies and design methodologies and principles. It also provides and overview of current research trends in the field of interaction design and children and identifies challenges for future research.To understand children's developmental needs it is important to be aware of the factors that affect children's intellectual development. This survey analyzes the relevance of constructivist, socio-cultural, and other modern theories with respect to the design of technologies for children. It also examines the significance of research on children's cognitive development in terms of perception, memory, symbolic representation, problem solving, and language. Since interacting with technologies most often involves children's hands this survey also reviews literature on children's fine motor development including manipulation and reaching movements. Just as it is important to know how to aid children's development it is also crucial to avoid harming development. This survey summarizes research on how technologies can negatively affect children's physical, intellectual, social, emotional, and moral development. Following is a review of design methodologies for children's technologies organized based on the roles children may play during the design process including a description of cooperative inquiry and informant design methods. This is followed by a review of design principles obtained through experiences in developing technologies for children as well as research studies. It includes design principles related to visual design (e.g., icons, visual complexity), interaction styles (e.g., direct manipulation, menus), and the use of input devices (e.g., pointing, dragging, using mouse buttons). The latter half of this survey summarizes research trends in the field of interaction design and children, grouping research efforts in the following areas: supporting creativity and problem solving, supporting collaboration and communication, accessing, gathering and exploring content, learning from simulations, supporting children with special needs, interacting with intelligent characters, supporting healthy lifestyles, learning skills, mobile, tangible, and ubiquitous computing, and designing and evaluating technologies. This survey concludes by formulating research challenges for the future and identifying three information age "plagues" children are in danger of facing in the near future.

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“…The interaction should be designed without high difficulty because the target age of exhibition is young children who cannot understand any sophisticated interaction. The story line consists of singing and voicing so that any audience can easily participate and see the artistic result on the fly [3].…”

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Sound Planet

Ban

Wohn

2014

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Supporting Group Work

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Sound Planet is a spherically-shaped interactive installation with the group interaction and the real-time visualization against audiences' voice and singing. The audience approaches the sleeping planet, wakes it up, creates some artifacts such as soil, water, and atmosphere, and then populates it with the life forms, thereby creating a living planet of their own. Its compelling storyline reinforces the audience's experience while the audiencemostly young children -establishes an emotional engagement with the fictitious planet. The installation whose primary purpose is to provide the synesthetic experience to young children has been operational since April 2014, serving about one hundred children and their family per day.

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Designing ubiquitous computing to enhance children's interaction in museums

Cited by 57 publications

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Interaction paradigms in technology-enhanced social spaces

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