Shaking the Dead: Multimodal Location Based Experiences for Un-stewarded Archaeological Sites

David McGookin; Yolanda Vazquez-Alvarez; Stephen Brewster; Joanna Bergstrom-Lehtovirta

doi:10.1145/2399016.2399048

Shaking the Dead: Multimodal Location Based Experiences for Un-stewarded Archaeological Sites

David McGookin, Yolanda Vazquez-Alvarez, Stephen Brewster, Joanna Bergstrom-Lehtovirta

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Abstract

We consider how visits to un-stewarded historical and archaeological sites - those that are unstaffed and have few visible archaeological remains - can be augmentedwith multimodal interaction to createmore engaging experiences. We developed and evaluated a mobile application that allowed multimodal exploration of a rural Roman fort. Sixteen primary school children used the application to explore the fort. Issues, including the influence of visual remains, were identified and compared with findings from a second study with eight users at a separate site. From these, we determined key design implications around the importance of physical space, group work and interaction with the auditory data.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 7th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Making Sense Through Design
Number of pages	10
Place of Publication	New York, NY, USA
Publisher	ACM
Publication date	2012
Pages	199-208
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-1482-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2399016.2399048
Publication status	Published - 2012
Externally published	Yes

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Shaking the Dead: Multimodal Location Based Experiences for Un-stewarded Archaeological Sites. / McGookin, David; Vazquez-Alvarez, Yolanda; Brewster, Stephen et al.

Proceedings of the 7th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Making Sense Through Design. New York, NY, USA : ACM, 2012. p. 199-208.

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