Mobile drama in an instrumented museum: inducing group conversation via coordinated narratives

  • Authors:
  • Charles Callaway;Oliviero Stock;Elyon Dekoven;Kinneret Noy;Yael Citron;Yael Dobrin

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel;FBK, Trento, Italy;Jerusalem, Israel;University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel;University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel;University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Museum visits can be more enjoyable to small groups if they can be both social and educational experiences. One very rewarding aspect of a visit, especially those involving small groups such as families, is the unmediated group discussion that can ensue during a shared cultural experience. We present a museum mobile system that perceives and analyzes group behavior and uses the result to adaptively deliver coordinated dramatic narrative presentations, resulting in the stimulation of group conversation. In particular, our drama-based presentations contain slight differences in content between the two visitors, leveraging the narrative tension/release cycle to naturally lead visitors to fill in missing pieces by interacting with friends and initiate a conversation. As a first step at evaluation, we present a study in a neutral environment centered around the effects of those differences in stories between pairs of participants, showing that listening to narratives with slight differences between them can significantly increase subsequent conversation.