The guidebook, the friend, and the room: Visitor experience in a historic house

Allison Woodruff; Paul M. Aoki; Amy Hurst; Margaret H. Szymanski

doi:10.1145/634067.634229

The guidebook, the friend, and the room: Visitor experience in a historic house

Allison Woodruff, Paul M. Aoki, Amy Hurst, Margaret H. Szymanski

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe an electronic guidebook prototype and report on a study of its use in a historic house. Supported by mechanisms in the guidebook, visitors constructed experiences that had a high degree of interaction with three entities: the guidebook, their companions, and the house and its contents. For example, we found that most visitors played audio descriptions through speakers (rather than using headphones or reading textual descriptions) to facilitate communication with their companions.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	CHI'01 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA'01
Pages	273-274
Number of pages	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/634067.634229
State	Published - 2001
Event	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2001 - Seattle, WA, United States Duration: Mar 31 2001 → Apr 5 2001

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

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Conference	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2001
Country/Territory	United States
City	Seattle, WA
Period	3/31/01 → 4/5/01

Keywords

Electronic guidebooks
Historic houses
Museums

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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The guidebook, the friend, and the room: Visitor experience in a historic house. / Woodruff, Allison; Aoki, Paul M.; Hurst, Amy et al.
CHI'01 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA'01. 2001. p. 273-274 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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Woodruff, A, Aoki, PM, Hurst, A & Szymanski, MH 2001, The guidebook, the friend, and the room: Visitor experience in a historic house. in CHI'01 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA'01. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, pp. 273-274, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2001, Seattle, WA, United States, 3/31/01. https://doi.org/10.1145/634067.634229

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