meSch – Tools for Interactive Exhibitions

Digital media offers great possibilities to present cultural heritage: visitors can interactively explore content and the content can be dynamically presented according to the situation in the exhibition. For instance, little content may be presented in larger letters if the visitor is standing far away from the exhibit, but if the visitor is coming closer, a larger body of content can be presented using smaller font sizes. One major goal of the meSch project is the development and integration of interactive technology into museum installations that senses visitors’ actions in an exhibition and presents digital content according to the visitors’ actions, such as position, visit trajectory, language preference, age or interest. We aim not only to empower curators and cultural heritage professionals but also interaction designers to design digital museum experiences and to build interactive exhibitions. Thus, we present here the meSch platform that enables to easily setup interactions in exhibitions. We present the general meSch concept, highlight the Plinth, a prototype that allows measuring the distance of visitors to an exhibit, and describe how the Plinth can enrich exhibitions as interactive component. Finally, we elaborate the iterative design process of the Plinth including an evaluation in an interactive exhibition as well as a re-design based on the results of this evaluation.

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Katrin Wolf

Essam Abdelhady

Yomna Abdelrahman

Thomas Kubitza

Albrecht Schmidt

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Publication date: July 2015

Publication date (Print): July 2015

Pages: 261-269

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[0001]University of Stuttgart

Germany

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/eva2015.28

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2015)

Conference acronym: EVA

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 7 & 9 July 2015

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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[1] L AdamsD Zukerman 1991 The Effect of Lighting Conditions on Personal Space Requirements The Journal of General Psychology 118 4)

[2] Art meets Science 2014 http://katrinwolf.info/art-meets-science/ 12 03 2015

[3] T BallendatN MarquardtS Greenberg 2010 Proxemic Interaction: Designing for a Proximity and Orientation-aware Environment Acm international conference on interactive tabletops and surfaces New York, NY, USA ACM

[4] T Brown 2008 Design thinking Harvard Business Review 86 6 844

[5] E. T Hall 1966 The hidden dimension Garden City, NY Doubleday

[6] E HorneckerM HonauerL Ciolfi 2014 Technology Augmentation of Historic Cemeteries – A Cross-Site Comparison Online Proceedings of the ACM Conference of Embodied and Embedded Interaction(TEI’14)

[7] T KubitzaA Schmidt 2014 First Set: Physical Components for the Creation of Interactive Exhibits Online Proceedings of the ACM Conference of Embodied and Embedded Interaction(TEI’14)

[8] N MarquardtS Greenberg 2012 Informing the Design of Proxemic Interactions IEEE Pervasive Computing 11 2)

[9] F McDermottL MayeG Avram 2014 Co-designing a collaborative with cultural heritage professionals Proceedings of the Irish Human Computer Interaction(iHCI)

[10] D PetrelliL CiolfiD van DijkE HorneckerE NotA Schmidt 2013 Integrating material and digital: a new way for cultural heritage Interactions 20 4 58 63 July

[11] N VillarJ ScottS HodgesK Hammiland C Miller 2012 .NET gadgeteer: a platform for custom devices Pervasive Computing Springer Berlin Heidelberg 216 233

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