Using Mobile Devices to Help Teachers and Students during a Visit to a Museum

Maurício Girardi, Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Brazil
Adriano Gonella, Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Brazil
Márcio Pinho, Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Brazil
Milene Silveira, Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Brazil
Patrick Calvetti, Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul,, Brazil
Melina Herrmann, Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Brazil
Ana Clair Bertoletti, Museu de Ciências e Tecnologia - PUCRS, Brazil

Session: Learning On-line and On-Site

This work presents an interactive system built to help teachers and students during a museum visit. We also present the interaction design process used to define the user interface. The system's main purpose is to help elementary and high school teachers to plan their students visit to a Museum. Using a portable device (Tablet-PC), the teachers can define a visiting guide with a set of questions that their students need to answer during the visit. The interaction was designed with participation of the PUCRS Science and Technology Museum staff and through many usability tests developed with the elementary and high school teachers.