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Exploring affordances through design-after-design: the re-purposing of an exhibition artefact by museum visitors

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Petros Ioannidis,

Anders Sundnes LøvlieAuthors Info & Claims

C&C '22: Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Creativity and Cognition

Pages 125 - 134

https://doi.org/10.1145/3527927.3532802

Published: 20 June 2022 Publication History

Abstract

Museums have increasingly focused on digital technologies and play as means to provide personalized, engaging experiences for their audience. Balancing educational and playful values is often conflicting. To address that conflict, museums often employ participatory design strategies. However, those strategies usually end after the deployment of those experiences, thus they do not accommodate for what occurs during actual use. In this article, we follow Light House, a research-through-design experiment of an installation that was developed using an iterative design approach which expands on actual use by deploying undetermined artefacts to support the discovery of novel interactions by visitors. Through our findings, we explore the “failure” of Light House to support the discovery of such interactions in relation to its educational character, but rather it inspired people to incorporate it in the activities supported by the surrounding space. Finally, we discuss the implications those discovered interactions in terms of potential re-design directions.

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Huang XXu J(2024)Han Opera Interactive Exhibition and App Design Based on the Theory of Cultural Three FactorsHCI International 2024 Posters10.1007/978-3-031-61950-2_24(220-227)Online publication date: 7-Jun-2024
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61950-2_24
Sparrow LRogerson M(2023)Lessons from Homebrewed Hybridity: Designing Hybrid Digital Boardgames for Distanced PlayProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/36110227:CHI PLAY(45-72)Online publication date: 4-Oct-2023
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