Re-connecting visual content to place in a mobile guide for the Shrine of Remembrance

Abstract

This paper describes a project carried out by the authors to design and evaluate a mobile guide with visual content for a large and significant war memorial in Melbourne called 'The Shrine of Remembrance'. A practical intention was to display items from extensive, but currently unseen, archives of historic materials, including architectural drawings, iconic postcards, film of past ceremonies of remembrance, and oral accounts of war experience. A parallel intention was to address the problem, identified in previous research into audio-tours, of individual visitors becoming isolated in an electronic 'information bubble' that inhibits the social dimension of visiting and learning about places. In contrast to the immersive style of many audio-tours, we set out to investigate the use of relatively lean and fragmentary visual and audio content intended to provoke new readings of the material site and to exist alongside the social activity of visiting.

Contributors

Wally Smith

Hannah Lewi

Kate Darian-Smith

Jon Pearce

Conference

Publication date: July 2010

Publication date (Print): July 2010

Pages: 347-354

Affiliations

University of Melbourne

Carlton VIC 3010

Australia

Article

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2010.50

Copyright statement: © Wally Smith et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2010), London, UK

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2010)

Conference acronym: EVA

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 5 - 7 July 2010

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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Product Information: 1477-9358BCS Learning & Development

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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing