Designing Interactive Technologies for Interpretive Exhibitions: Enabling Teen Participation Through User-Driven Innovation

Vanessa Cesário, Sonia Matos, Marko Radeta, Valentina Nisi

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The active involvement of teenagers in the design of interactive technologies for museums is lacking further development. Adopting a user-driven innovation framework along with cooperative inquiry, we report and discuss a case study that has been designed to involve users in the ideation of interpretive experiences for a local museum. Working in collaboration with the Natural History Museum of Funchal, this contribution will present and discuss co-design sessions that were aimed at participants with ages 15 to 17 and where they were asked to ideate an interactive museum experience. As a result of the co-design sessions, we have found several design patterns. We have grouped these patterns into four categories that express the interests of a teenage audience; these categories are: “interactions”, “gaming”, “localization” and “social media”. Our findings suggest that teenagers value interactive technologies when visiting museums and that user-driven innovation plays an important role when involving this specific audience in the design of user experiences for museums.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHuman-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2017
Subtitle of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science
PublisherSpringer
Volume10513
ISBN (Electronic)9783319677446
ISBN (Print)9783319677439
Publication statusPublished - 20 Sept 2017
EventInternational Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) - Mumbai, India
Duration: 25 Sept 201729 Sept 2017
https://www.interact2017.org

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
PublisherSpringer
ISSN (Print)0302-9743

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
Abbreviated titleINTERACT 2017
Country/TerritoryIndia
CityMumbai
Period25/09/1729/09/17
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