Designing and evaluating advanced interactive experiences to increase visitor's stimulation in a museum

  • Authors:
  • Bénédicte Schmitt;Cedric Bach;Emmanuel Dubois;Francis Duranthon

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Toulouse, Toulouse Cedex, France and Global Vision Systems, Ramonville Saint Agne, France;University of Toulouse, Toulouse Cedex, France and Metapages, Toulouse, France;University of Toulouse, Toulouse Cedex, France;LECP/Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse, Toulouse, France

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 1st Augmented Human International Conference
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe the design and a pilot study of two Mixed Interactive Systems (MIS), interactive systems combining digital and physical artifacts. These MIS aim at stimulating visitors of a Museum of Natural History about a complex phenomenon. This phenomenon is the pond eutrophication that is a breakdown of a dynamical equilibrium caused by human activities: this breakdown results in a pond unfit for life. This paper discusses the differences between these two MIS prototypes, the design process that lead to their implementation and the dimensions used to evaluate these prototypes: user experience (UX), usability of the MIS and the users' understanding of the eutrophication phenomenon.