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Interaction and interactives: collaboration and participation with computer-based exhibits
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Abstract It is increasingly recognized that social interaction and collaboration are critical to our experience of museums and galleries. Curators, museum managers and designers are exploring ways of enhancing interaction and in particular using tools and technolo... view more
It is increasingly recognized that social interaction and collaboration are critical to our experience of museums and galleries. Curators, museum managers and designers are exploring ways of enhancing interaction and in particular using tools and technologies to create new forms of participation, with and around, exhibits. It is found, however, that these new tools and technologies, whilst enhancing “interactivity,” can do so at the cost of social interaction and collaboration, inadvertently impoverishing co-participation, and cooperation. In this paper we address some of the issues and difficulties that arise in designing for “interactivity” and in particular point to the complex and highly contingent forms of social interaction which arise with, and around, exhibits. The paper is based on a series of video-based field studies of conduct and interaction in various museums and galleries in London and elsewhere including the Science Museum and Explore@Bristol.... view less
Document language
English
Publication Year
2005
Page/Pages
p. 91-101
Journal
Public Understanding of Science, 14 (2005) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662505047343
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)