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An observational study for developing digital technology in the museum

This study aims to understand the behaviour of visitors of the Negeri Sembilan State Museum, Malaysia based on visitor demographic information and activity patterns. 30 volunteers were observed during their visit to investigate how they interact with tangible objects that are exhibited in the museum...

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Main Authors: Shah, N. F. M. N., Ghazali, M., Othman, N. Z. S.
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2019
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QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/89018/1/MasitahGhazali2019_AnObservationalStudyforDeveloping.pdf
http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/89018/
https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3328243.3328264
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spelling my.utm.890182021-01-26T08:41:27Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/89018/ An observational study for developing digital technology in the museum Shah, N. F. M. N. Ghazali, M. Othman, N. Z. S. QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science This study aims to understand the behaviour of visitors of the Negeri Sembilan State Museum, Malaysia based on visitor demographic information and activity patterns. 30 volunteers were observed during their visit to investigate how they interact with tangible objects that are exhibited in the museum space. All participants were never exposed to any digital technologies in the museum before. A qualitative approach was adopted where an evaluation toolkit for museum practitioners and observation framework was used for data collection. Our findings indicated that dioramas received much more attention from the participants than the artefacts and labels display. This pointed to the inadequacy of the exhibition style where it did not capture nor attract the participants to stop, interact or obtain information from the artefacts. The gap may be filled in by the usage of digital technology in museum exhibitions as it has the potential of providing interactive features that would attract visitors and create engagement with the artefacts in the museum. 2019 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/89018/1/MasitahGhazali2019_AnObservationalStudyforDeveloping.pdf Shah, N. F. M. N. and Ghazali, M. and Othman, N. Z. S. (2019) An observational study for developing digital technology in the museum. In: 5th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and User Experience (UX): Empowering Digital Transformation, CHIuXiD 2019, 1-9 April 2019, Jakarta, Indonesia. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3328243.3328264
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
building UTM Library
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continent Asia
country Malaysia
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language English
topic QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
spellingShingle QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Shah, N. F. M. N.
Ghazali, M.
Othman, N. Z. S.
An observational study for developing digital technology in the museum
description This study aims to understand the behaviour of visitors of the Negeri Sembilan State Museum, Malaysia based on visitor demographic information and activity patterns. 30 volunteers were observed during their visit to investigate how they interact with tangible objects that are exhibited in the museum space. All participants were never exposed to any digital technologies in the museum before. A qualitative approach was adopted where an evaluation toolkit for museum practitioners and observation framework was used for data collection. Our findings indicated that dioramas received much more attention from the participants than the artefacts and labels display. This pointed to the inadequacy of the exhibition style where it did not capture nor attract the participants to stop, interact or obtain information from the artefacts. The gap may be filled in by the usage of digital technology in museum exhibitions as it has the potential of providing interactive features that would attract visitors and create engagement with the artefacts in the museum.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Shah, N. F. M. N.
Ghazali, M.
Othman, N. Z. S.
author_facet Shah, N. F. M. N.
Ghazali, M.
Othman, N. Z. S.
author_sort Shah, N. F. M. N.
title An observational study for developing digital technology in the museum
title_short An observational study for developing digital technology in the museum
title_full An observational study for developing digital technology in the museum
title_fullStr An observational study for developing digital technology in the museum
title_full_unstemmed An observational study for developing digital technology in the museum
title_sort observational study for developing digital technology in the museum
publishDate 2019
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/89018/1/MasitahGhazali2019_AnObservationalStudyforDeveloping.pdf
http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/89018/
https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3328243.3328264
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