Understanding mixed reality interactions in a children’s museum exhibition

Rojin Vishkaie; Teddy Seyed; Claire Thoma Emmons; Dirk Vom Lehn

doi:10.1080/09523987.2021.1989764

Understanding mixed reality interactions in a children’s museum exhibition

Rojin Vishkaie^*, Teddy Seyed, Claire Thoma Emmons, Dirk Vom Lehn

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Abstract

Socializing and interaction are important aspects for families who visit museums. Mixed reality (MR) uses a set of technologies that museums employ to encourage this behavior, but they face challenges in maintaining family cohesion with experiences across different exhibitions and kiosks. In this paper, we explore these challenges broadly to provide strategies for MR exhibitions that support better family cohesion, and thus interaction. As part of our exploration, we partnered with the Indianapolis Children’s Museum and used its Take Me To Greece exhibition and observed intergenerational family interactions at eight different kiosks with a range of MR technologies using “research in the wild” approach. We present our findings in terms of concerted immersion patterns of families with the kiosks encompassing both real and virtual spaces, while disrupted interactions when family members split from the group to interact with virtual kiosks. We then present design considera- tions to provide a broad understanding of the aspects of reality and virtuality in a MR children’s museum exhibition, and the influence of these MR dimensions on intergenerational family interactions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-23
Number of pages	23
Journal	Educational Media International
Volume	59
Issue number	1
Early online date	11 Mar 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/09523987.2021.1989764
Publication status	Published - 2022

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children’s museum
family interactions
Mixed reality
research in-the-wild

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