mobile human-computer interaction

Orit Shaer, Wellesley College; Jim Olson, Davis Museum and Cultural Center; MaCherie Edwards and Consuelo Valdes, Wellesley College, USA

Abstract

This paper presents the design, development, and evaluation of ARTeMuse, a social mobile application for helping beginning viewers to engage with works of art. ARTeMuse has been tested in the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, an academic fine-arts museum on the Wellesley College campus. Our findings indicate that beginning users who tested the application were more engaged with works of arts while using ARTeMuse than they were when viewing the collection without the application. As a result, they spent significantly more time with each work. Users were eager to use ARTeMuse and expressed their satisfaction about learning new ways to think about art. Through the development and evaluation of ARTeMuse, we seek to investigate how mobile human-computer interaction paired with social networking can help museums to redefine the museum experience for beginning viewers.

Keywords: ARTeMuse, mobile human-computer interaction, social networking