2006-10-30
Leaving a Trace: Supporting Museum Visitor Interaction and Interpretation with Digital Media Annotation Systems
How can museums support visitors in representing and exchanging their ideas about museum exhibits? The authors describe two related digital media annotation systems (called VideoTraces and ArtTraces, respectively) that allow museum visitors to record "traces" of their experiences. Traces are composed of digital visual recordings of the exhibits made or selected by the visitors that are then layered with verbal and gestural annotations. In these annotations, visitors describe, interpret, question, explain, and notice aspects of the exhibits.
The traces are elements for conversations between visitors and with other stakeholders in museums. In the article, we propose how the use of traces systems in museums may achieve two goals: 1) supporting new forms of connection, among visitors in the museum and between schools and museums, and 2) conducting research on visitor experience and learning.
For further reading:
http://faculty.washington.edu/reedstev/Stevens_Traces_Museum_Ed.pdf
For further reading:
http://faculty.washington.edu/reedstev/Stevens_Traces_Museum_Ed.pdf
Authors:
Reed Stevens, Associate Professor of University of Washington
Sandra Toro Martell, Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Reed Stevens, Associate Professor of University of Washington
Sandra Toro Martell, Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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