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Virtual dioramas transform natural history museum exhibit halls & gardens to life with immersive AR

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IDC '20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference: Extended Abstracts

Pages 276 - 279

https://doi.org/10.1145/3397617.3402036

Published: 21 July 2020 Publication History

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The original motivation and design process of the AR Perpetual Garden App is discussed in detail. Available on Apple iTunes and Google Play Stores, children and parents, teachers and students, may download and learn with it now, thus amplifying the learning impact of immersive experiences even at home. Inspired by the dioramas of the past, both the creation process and their use in museums as interactive, multimodal, knowledge artifacts are discussed and carefully analyzed. This paper may be of interest to researchers and practitioners alike. First, as a way to understand and generalize the critical design factors used and to extend findings into their design research, and second, as an iterative design and development process model, learner-user experience (LUX) design, extensible to other domains.

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Green THutchings PScarff FTweedley JCalver M(2023)Research publications of Australia’s natural history museums, 1981–2020: Enduring relevance in a changing worldPLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.028765918:6(e0287659)Online publication date: 23-Jun-2023
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287659
Harrington MBledsoe ZJones CMiller JPring T(2021)Designing a Virtual Arboretum as an Immersive, Multimodal, Interactive, Data Visualization Virtual Field TripMultimodal Technologies and Interaction10.3390/mti50400185:4(18)Online publication date: 9-Apr-2021
https://doi.org/10.3390/mti5040018

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Virtual dioramas transform natural history museum exhibit halls & gardens to life with immersive AR
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
    1. Interactive learning environments
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Mixed / augmented reality
  2. Interaction design
    1. Empirical studies in interaction design

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IDC '20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference: Extended Abstracts

June 2020

367 pages

ISBN:9781450380201

DOI:10.1145/3397617

General Chairs:
Elisa Rubegni
University of Lancaster, UK
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Asimina Vasalou
University College London, UK
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Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
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Nitin Sawhney
Aalto University, Finland

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Green THutchings PScarff FTweedley JCalver M(2023)Research publications of Australia’s natural history museums, 1981–2020: Enduring relevance in a changing worldPLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.028765918:6(e0287659)Online publication date: 23-Jun-2023
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287659
Harrington MBledsoe ZJones CMiller JPring T(2021)Designing a Virtual Arboretum as an Immersive, Multimodal, Interactive, Data Visualization Virtual Field TripMultimodal Technologies and Interaction10.3390/mti50400185:4(18)Online publication date: 9-Apr-2021
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