Thesis
Supporting learning for art museum visitors with visual AR overlays applied to a long scroll painting
Master of Science (M.S.), Drexel University
Jun 2017
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17918/etd-7418
Abstract
Museums play an important role as informal educational resources in people's daily life. Some museums with especially popular exhibits attract large amounts of visitors. Those museums have to limit the average length of stay for each visitor for the protection of exhibits and due to limited space. In this case, visitors, especially those who want to learn from exhibits directly, do not have enough time in the presence of the exhibits. To help alleviate this problem, we explored the use of visual aids in said museum environments to support visitors' learning experiences in limited time. Visual aids have been widely applied in the education field to support the learning process. Recently the technologies needed for Augmented Reality (AR) have become much more affordable and available to the general public. AR has the potential to be a powerful tool to provide visual aids in support of learning, through visualizing overlays while keeping the original content present at the same time. This paper presents the design, development, and evaluation of a prototype for providing visual AR overlays applied to a traditional Chinese long scroll painting "Along the River during Qingming Festival". The prototype shows overlays to visitors to support their learning and improve the appreciation of detail information in a limited time span. An iterative evaluation of the application through a panel of experts indicated that the design approach can support visitors' learning and deeper engagement. In particular, the panel found that in order to support visitors' short-term learning in museums, the design of visual aids needs to support a suitable search strategy.
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- Title
- Supporting learning for art museum visitors with visual AR overlays applied to a long scroll painting
- Creators
- Weicheng Liu - DU
- Contributors
- Stefan Rank (Advisor) - Drexel University (1970-)
- Awarding Institution
- Drexel University
- Degree Awarded
- Master of Science (M.S.)
- Publisher
- Drexel University; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Number of pages
- vi, 46 pages
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Digital Media; Drexel University; Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design
- Other Identifier
- 7418; 991014632821804721