Experience, engagement and social interaction at a steam locomotive multimodal interactive museum exhibit

Clarke, Loraine and Hornecker, Eva; (2013) Experience, engagement and social interaction at a steam locomotive multimodal interactive museum exhibit. In: CHI EA '13 CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, New York, pp. 613-618. ISBN 978-1-4503-1952-2 (https://doi.org/10.1145/2468356.2468464)

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Abstract

This paper describes the on-going study of an interactive multimodal museum exhibit about a steam-powered locomotive at the Riverside Transport Museum in Glasgow, UK. We examine the role of multimodal interaction relating to effects on (1) visitors' experience of the exhibit, (2) engagement with the subject matter, (3) social interaction and (4) engagement with the exhibit itself. We discuss key questions of our study, a set of initial findings, reflections and future work.