Digital Cultural Items in Space: The Impact of Contextual Information on Presenting Digital Cultural Items

• DOI: 10.1145/3594725
• Publication Date: 2023-05-25T11:34:03Z
• Authors: Christopher Ferraris; Tom Davis; Christos Gatzidis; Charlie Hargood
• Keywords: Affordance; Visitor pattern; Presentation (obstetrics); Think aloud protocol

Cultural heritage practitioners continue to engage with ever-changing technological opportunities, and digital cultural items (DCIs) offer the potential for engaging interactive experiences. As DCIs become more prevalent, we are motivated seek new presentation opportunities from medium understand its affordances regard contextual information. In this publication, through a series of Speak Aloud tasks (n = 15) participants, explore how information can improve user experiences DCIs. The aforementioned study’s results demonstrate that inclusion when presenting DCI can, in fact, visitor’s understanding DCI’s size scale plus also perceived realism DCI. Moreover, observe information, recommended addition, supports generation narrative by visitor audience. conclusion, advise on relationship between DCI, toward interacting manner very similar analog counterpart.