Beyond Just the Facts: Museum Detective Guides
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We present Museum Detective, a handheld guide designed for use by school children to encourage guided learning through paired discovery of one object displayed within the museum space. Initial analysis revealed that students exhibited a higher level of focused attention and short-term and longer-term retention of information about the artifacts in the gallery. However, we propose that the Museum Detective interface extends beyond the frame of the device and its application into the expanded contexts of space, time and social interaction, as we push on the notion that information delivery does not have to be the sole objective of handheld guides designed for the art museum.
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