Beyond just the facts: transforming the museum learning experience

Authors:
Jennifer Thom-Santelli;Kirsten Boehner;Geri Gay;Helene Hembrooke
Affiliations:
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY;Cornell University, Ithaca, NY;Cornell University, Ithaca, NY;Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Venue:
CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Year:
2006

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Abstract

We present Museum Detective, a handheld system designed for use by school children to encourage guided learning through paired discovery of one object in an art museum. Initial analysis showed that children were able to use the devices cooperatively and exhibited longer-term retention of information about the artifacts in the gallery. We propose that the design of the Museum Detective interface can be refined to further encourage students to actively transform their museum learning experience.