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Exhibiting Emotion: Capturing Visitors’ Emotional Responses to Museum Artefacts

Alelis, Genevieve, Bobrowicz, Ania, Ang, Chee Siang (2013) Exhibiting Emotion: Capturing Visitors’ Emotional Responses to Museum Artefacts. In: Design, User Experience, and Usability. User Experience in Novel Technological Environments. Lecture Notes in Computer Science . pp. 429-438. Springer, Berlin, Germany ISBN 978-3-642-39237-5. E-ISBN 978-3-642-39238-2. (doi:10.1007/978-3-642-39238-2_47) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:35909)

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Abstract

The museum provides the perfect setting for the convergence of culture, reflection, personal connections, and communication, and many museums supplement these visitor experiences through the use of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) systems. While there has been past HCI research on various combinations of these four areas, the overall goal of this study is to explore the emotional links museum visitors make while encompassing all four areas through the use of engaging HCI technologies. This paper reports on the results of a study carried out at the Powell-Cotton Museum, a local ethnographic museum located in south-east Kent, UK. Using structured interviews and thematic analysis, visitors’ emotional responses to museum artefacts were analysed. Findings suggest that when given the task of providing emotional responses to artefacts, visitors are motivated to find meaningful and personal connections.

Item Type: Conference or workshop item (Paper)
DOI/Identification number: 10.1007/978-3-642-39238-2_47
Subjects: T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering > TK5101 Telecommunications
T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering > TK7800 Electronics
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Engineering and Digital Arts
Depositing User: Tina Thompson
Date Deposited: 01 Nov 2013 11:57 UTC
Last Modified: 27 Oct 2022 09:11 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/35909 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Bobrowicz, Ania.

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Ang, Chee Siang.

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