Accessing Cultural Artifacts Through Digital Companions: The Effects on Children’s Engagement

Matthias Rehm; Martin Lynge Jensen

doi:10.1109/Culture.and.Computing.2015.44

Accessing Cultural Artifacts Through Digital Companions: The Effects on Children’s Engagement

Matthias Rehm, Martin Lynge Jensen

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Abstract

This paper presents a study that explores how the introduction of a digital companion agent for a museum exploration game changes children’s engagement with the presented artworks. To this end, a mobile application was developed
featuring a monster agent that has eaten the artworks, which the children had now to find in the museum. Results show that in comparison to the paper-based version of the exploration game, children engaged in more interactions with the actual cultural artifacts and showed a significantly higher retention rate for details of the involved artworks.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Culture and Computing
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society Press
Publication date	2015
Pages	72-79
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4673-8232-8
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4673-8231-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/Culture.and.Computing.2015.44
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	International Conference on Culture and Computing 2015 - Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Duration: 17 Oct 2015 → 19 Oct 2015

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Conference	International Conference on Culture and Computing 2015
Location	Kyoto University
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Kyoto
Period	17/10/2015 → 19/10/2015

Keywords

Culture Aware Technology
DIgital Companion
Engagement

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