1) Augmented reality and mobile devices can be used to enhance museum experiences by providing additional interpretive content about exhibits and expanding access to information.
2) They allow for diverse interactions like on-demand translation, collaborative activities between visitors, and role-playing games that can challenge typical spatial experiences in a museum.
3) Effective implementations require considering factors like appropriate content, facilitating collaboration, intuitive interaction styles, and testing and evaluating experiences with users.
1. Augmented encounters with heritage
The Doge of Venice in a long procession embarking on the state barge the Bucintoro. c.1500
Shelley Mannion, British Museum Digital Humanities Fall School, 2014
6. Stages of aesthetic development
1. Accountive
2. Constructive
3. Classifying
4. Interpretive
5. Re-creative
Learners need to progress
gradually from one stage to the
next
7. Mobile devices are simply
additions to our existing set
of interpretive tools.
8. Image by Patrick Lauke on Flickr
Exhibition banners
Map plinths
Visitor guide
Top 10 map
Souvenir book
Visitor services staff
Multimedia guide
Digital signage screens
Visitorsâ own devices
Information
ecosystem
Interpretive panels
Object labels
Gallery media
External guidebooks
50. Fragmentation is vital to the
production of the museum
both as a space of posited
meaning and as a space of
abstraction...meaning derives
not from the original context of
the fragments but from their
juxtaposition in a new context.
From Destination Culture,
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett