One place, many stories digital storytelling for cultural heritage discovery in the landscape

Abstract

Places we walk through every day often have cultural heritage stories connected to them, but many stories remain unknown and many get lost. Storytelling for cultural heritage discovery has long been used, mostly in cultural institutions. The documentation and dissemination of cultural heritage stories related to the landscape is challenging. There are countless places, and many of them lie outside the responsibility of cultural institutions. Associations and enthusiasts contribute to gather memories and tell about places, but the information is often fragmented and not always available in a digital form. Thus stories are difficult to retrieve. Can we exploit the popularity of a mobile participatory culture in order to engage people to tell about the places around them and to boost the exploration of cultural heritage in the landscape? This paper presents the design and evaluation of the mobile and social storytelling application "stedr". As young people are under-represented among users of traditional culture, we have chosen them as a target group in our study. Young people have contributed to elicitation of requirements, to the development of the application, and finally to its evaluation. Our contribution is a revisited digital storytelling approach for engaging in the discovery of cultural heritage in the landscape and the evaluation of the approach.

The Balance of Attention

“…Locative storytelling fits the last of these definitions. The focus can be on the content, such as the Stedr application [20] that supports complex multimedia stories, although the stories are pinned to specific locations as a whole, rather than ranging across multiple locations. Alternatively the focus can be on navigation, intelligently creating routes between historic POIs using visitor profiles [23] or thematic analysis of the POIs [2] in order to create an adaptive but coherent experience.…”

Evaluating the Usability and the Personal and Social Acceptance of a Participatory Digital Platform for Cultural Heritage

“…Several cultural heritage digital platforms, systems and applications have included the idea of active user participation as a core or complementary service in their design and implementation [10][11][12][13]. Participatory cultural heritage digital platforms offer individuals the capability to become active parts in generating, collecting, exploring and notifying cultural heritage knowledge.…”

“…Participatory cultural heritage digital platforms offer individuals the capability to become active parts in generating, collecting, exploring and notifying cultural heritage knowledge. The "stedr" cultural heritage mobile application is a social storytelling application that narrates stories about the history of an outdoor location [10]. 1001 Stories of Denmark 4 is a participatory cultural heritage digital platform dedicated to storytelling in Denmark.…”

“…The idea of active user participation in generating, collecting and contributing personal content is not new to digital cultural heritage [10][11][12][13]. Mia Ridge in Reference [14] states that "crowdsourcing in cultural heritage is more than a framework for creating content: as a form of engagement with the collections and research of memory institutions, it benefits both audiences and institutions."…”

Empirical Evaluations of Interactive Systems in Cultural Heritage

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