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Audience participation in museums: Game Design as
Learning Activity
N.Yiannoutsou, N.Avouris, C.SintorisUniversity of Patras, Greece
NordiCHI workshop: Design for Audience EngagementCopenhagen, Denmark, October 14th 2012
Meaning making in the museumAccording to the constructivist
perspective (Hein, 1998) the active role of the visitor is essential in the museum learning experience
The visitor constructs meaning through the interaction as opposed to the passive consumption of information.
Games may play an important role in this setting
Museum games: interaction with exhibits In many museum games artefacts are
treated as a set of disconnected and de-contextualized objects (Klopfer et al., 2005) e.g. cut out letters
Audience Participation in museumsThe proliferation of mobile technologies and
social media has supported the creation of user generated content, examples:
Tagging: unstructured text associated with objectsDebunking, criticizing: arguing against other peoples’
ideas, tags etc.Recording personal stories: personal memories
associated to a museum objectLinking objects or categorising: grouping of objects or
associating them (e.g. card sorting, museumscrabble)[M.Ridge, Everyone wins: Crowdsourcing games & Museums, MuseumNext, May 2011]
Engagement through connecting to personal stories
Engagement for serving the community: citizen curator
Engagement through building personal narratives
Franklin Remix projectA playful yet somewhat irreverent cartoon created by a middle school student early in the. The Philadelphia School, Philadelphia, PA, March, 2006
Fisher and Twiss-Garrity, Remixing exhibits: Constructing participatory narratives with on-line tools to augment museum experiences.
http://www.museumsandtheweb.com
Audience engagement
…through building their own games
SFzero: community created games
e,.g. “Install a door in a public place,” a group of SFZero players constructed Doorhengein Golden Gate Park.
http://www.participatorymuseum.org/chapter8/
Game content editor: a tool to build games by the players for a group of linking games
• MuseumScrabble• CityScrabble• BenakiMuseumScrabble
[ work in progress]
Game content editor (google+ app)
Rubén Muñoz and Christos Sintoris, 2012
CityScrabble
A B C
MuseumScrabble
BenakiMS
Final noteparticipatory activities such as game
design when scaffolded by technology and integrated in museum activities can offer rich learning experiences
They reserve for the visitor the role of collaborator and partner and entail the creation of an enduring relationship with the museum
thanks
hci.edu.gr