MuseUs

Coenen, Tanguy; Mostmans, Lien; Naessens, Kris

doi:10.1145/2460376.2460379

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“…Consequently, there has been an upsurge of interest in geolocated games for cultural heritage, although these are more likely to be based indoors. For example, within museums, the use of game environments are a playful tool for narrative storytelling [59] or for personal exhibition creation [18] and memory making [16]. Outdoor geolocated games foster context-aware learning [47,61] and knowledge acquisition about historical sites [5] and events [38].…”

Section: Related Work 21 Location-based Games Cultural Heritage Anmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Enthusiast, the Interested, the Sceptic, and the Cynic

Jones

Theodosis

Lykourentzou

2019

J. Comput. Cult. Herit.

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We discuss the user study of a mobile cultural heritage game designed to stimulate reflection about a city's history. Aided by location-aware technology, the game fosters the serendipitous discovery of points of interest, historical images and stories, whilst players wander the city. This exploration differs from the typical precalculated path recommendations used by other location-based applications. It triggers reflection about the city's past that is as unique as its visitors. Ours is one of the first studies to attempt an understanding of the effects of serendipitous urban discovery and historic reflection-triggering technologies on user experience. We combined field trials with controlled experiments, analysing perceptions of the experience and value using responses expressed in open-ended questionnaire items. Using thematic coding and sentiment analysis, we observed types of emotional responses, indicating four potential profiles of their likelihood towards future technology adoption. Enthusiastic and Interested users appreciated the freedom of movement choice that created an autonomous experience that fostered a sense of personal accomplishment. The interface interactions of the game, designed to stimulate reflection, supported a feeling of connectedness to others. In contrast, Cynical and Sceptical users were less tolerant of perceived technological issues, requiring more perfection in functionality and design. These users are less likely to be the early adopters of serendipitous location-based apps. The game was developed as part of a large cultural informatics project but, unlike typical evaluations, we conducted this study midway through the project and not at its end. This approach (1) gave the team the possibility to take stock, pause, and reflect and (2) provided insight on future design improvements for increasing the perceived value of serendipitous urban discovery applications. Our results contribute towards a grounded understanding of user experience and help progress the development of cultural heritage applications that incorporate elements of reflection and/or place-based exploration into their functionalities. CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in ubiquitous and mobile computing;

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Section: Related Work 21 Location-based Games Cultural Heritage Anmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Enthusiast, the Interested, the Sceptic, and the Cynic

Jones

Theodosis

Lykourentzou

2019

J. Comput. Cult. Herit.

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“…Considering that many CH designers follow co-design approaches [55,56], they would welcome the integration of collaborative tools within the environment of DeCACHe. Such integration would help people who work with others on the same design project to implement various interactions over the team through a single environment.…”

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DeCACHe: Supporting Designers in Creating Cognition-Centered Adaptive Cultural Heritage Activities

2019

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Cultural heritage (CH) institutions attract wide and heterogeneous audiences, which should be efficiently supported and have access to meaningful CH content. This introduces numerous challenges when delivering such experiences, given that people have different cognitive characteristics which influence the way we process information, experience, behave, and acquire knowledge. Our recent studies provide evidence that human cognition should be considered as a personalization factor within CH contexts, and thus we developed a framework that delivers cognition-centered personalized CH activities. The efficiency and the efficacy of the framework have been successfully assessed through two user studies, but non-technical professionals (e.g., CH designers) may face difficulties when attempting to use it and create personalized CH activities. In this paper, we present DeCACHe, which supports CH designers in creating cognition-centered personalized CH activities throughout different phases of the design lifecycle. We also report a user study with seventeen professional CH designers, who used our tool to design CH activities for people with different cognitive characteristics.Cognition-centered personalization framework for CH content. In our recent work [13], we presented a framework that helps CH stakeholders (e.g., CH designers, CH institutions, CH educators) in providing personalized CH activities to the visitors through adaptive interventions that leverage the visitors' cognitive profiles. The framework consists of three stages: (a) the design of personalized CH activities; (b) the visitor modeling based on selected cognitive factors; and (c) the configuration and delivery of the personalized CH activity to the visitor. The first stage is performed before the visit while the other two stages are performed during the visit. Hence, through our framework, a CH designer receives personalized recommendations that would help them to create different versions of a CH activity that build on the unique cognitive profile of the potential visitors, and, then, the personalized CH activity is delivered to each visitor through rule-based techniques, which map each visitor's cognitive profile with the corresponding rules of content adaptation. The cognitive profiles are built dynamically through real-time modeling based on users' behavioral data (e.g., eye-tracking data, interaction data). The results of three user-studies [12,13] revealed that the visitors who used the cognition-adapted CH activities had an enhanced experience and an improved knowledge acquisition in comparison to the visitors who used the original CH activities. However, we should stress that the configuration of the framework required the modification of technical details that our research team was aware of, but they can be a burden for non-technical CH stakeholders, such as designers. Hence, there is a need for providing a standalone authoring-like tool for supporting CH designers in easily creating cognition-centered personalized CH activities.Tools for creating...

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“…This analysis is indebted to the well-established body of research examining how visitors interpret exhibits and cultural heritage objects (Hooper-Greenhill 2000;Falk and Dierking 2013). It also emerges from literature examining how digital practices support visitor interpretations (Coenen, Mostmans, and Naessens 2013) and the sharing of responses to cultural heritage, for example through social media:…”

Section: Articulating Engagement With Cultural Heritagementioning

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Mobilising connections with art: Artcasting and the digital articulation of visitor engagement with cultural heritage

Ross

Knox

Sowton

et al. 2018

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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This article offers insights into how digital methods in cultural heritage settings can help evoke and illuminate the richness of visitor engagement and interpretation, especially in relation to expressions of ownership. Drawing on the Artcasting research project, which examined how galleries can inventively evaluate visitors' engagement with art, we propose that, in addition to looking for commonalities and stability in visitors' articulation of engagement, it is beneficial to look for ways to make sense of difference. The project drew on theories of mobility to explore visitor engagement with cultural heritage, creating an artcasting platform that invited visitors to 'cast' artworks to another place or time. We analyse artcasting data through two 'movements'. The first uses thematic analysis of artcasts to show how visitors to two ARTIST ROOMS exhibitions expressed ownership in relation to their engagement with artworks. The second demonstrates how individual responses can be put into relationship and understood as an articulation of engagement that moves beyond the interpretive authority of the gallery or any one visitor. The article contributes new perspectives to understandings of articulation and engagement and their relationship to the production of heritage, and reflects on implications for moving digital practice towards more complexity and diversity.

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MuseUs

Cited by 77 publications

References 21 publications

The Enthusiast, the Interested, the Sceptic, and the Cynic

The Enthusiast, the Interested, the Sceptic, and the Cynic

DeCACHe: Supporting Designers in Creating Cognition-Centered Adaptive Cultural Heritage Activities

Mobilising connections with art: Artcasting and the digital articulation of visitor engagement with cultural heritage

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