Interactive storytelling experience for museums in the era of COVID-19

Saif Alatrash; Sylvester Arnab; Kaja Antlej

doi:10.34190/GBL.21.009

Interactive storytelling experience for museums in the era of COVID-19

Saif Alatrash, Sylvester Arnab, Kaja Antlej

Research Centre in Postdigital Cultures

Deakin University

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review

3 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

The recent COVID-19 restrictions have forced many museums and entertainment institutions to shut their doors to visitors. This initiated an extraordinary impact on the heritage sector, forcing museum professionals to rethink and reshape how heritage contents could be made more accessible. This paper is part of ongoing research for developing a theoretical framework towards enhancing the visitor experience within the museum environments. The study investigates the implementation of gamified storytelling experience within the context of immersive technology in museum environments towards increasing the level of immersion of the visitor's when "interacting" with museum artefacts. Digital technology allows museum professionals to implement advanced interaction within their exhibition displays, enabling visitors to be more active and involved in the knowledge exchange process. Museum display and exhibition practices are beginning to explore the potential of immersive technology to provide visitors with meaningful experiences that facilitate the transfer of knowledge. In this study, Virtual Reality (VR) is considered as an instrument that could enable better interpretation of these artefacts. To add and increase immersion and meaningful interactions in VR experiences, this study investigates storytelling and gamified approaches as key enablers of such experiences. The study covers engineering heritage with the Lanchester petrol-electric car developed in 1927 as the subject matter and also an artefact. The car, the inventor, Frederick Lanchester, and the history serves as the focal point of the investigation into the gamified immersive representations of museum objects. Three different VR experiments (gamified, narrated, and immersive) will be conducted in closed (university lab) and open (museum) environments to validate and determine the framework's impact on enhancing the users' experiences and interpretations. The developed framework will benefit museums exhibition in general by improving the interpretation process and educational experience for the visitors. The paper describes different approaches considered in this study such as gamification and storytelling practices in museum mediums to improve immersions and motivation of the visitors.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Game Based Learning, ECGBL 2021
Editors	Panagiotis Fotaris
Publisher	Dechema e.V.
Pages	795-802
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9781914587122
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.34190/GBL.21.009
Publication status	Published - 2021
Event	15th European Conference on Games Based Learning - Brighton, United Kingdom Duration: 23 Sept 2021 → 24 Sept 2021

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the European Conference on Games-based Learning
Volume	2021-September
ISSN (Print)	2049-0992

Conference

Conference	15th European Conference on Games Based Learning
Abbreviated title	ECGBL
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Brighton
Period	23/09/21 → 24/09/21

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This PhD project by Saif Alatrash "Gamified Immersive Museum Experience for Engineering and Design Heritage" has been funded by the Deakin-Coventry doctoral cotutelle program. The project is being supervised by Prof Sylvester Arnab and Dr Kaja Antlej. We thank associated supervisors Prof Neil Forbes, Prof Jacqueline Cawston, and Dr Michael Loizou at Coventry University, and Prof Ben Horan and Prof Meghan Kelly at Deakin University for their continuous advice and support. The preliminary study at the Geelong Design Week 2021 (GDW21) has received Deakin University ethics approval (reference number: STEC-57-2019-ANTLEJ-MOD02) as a part of Deakin University' Designed by Geelong: a history of invention' research project. We also thank Mathew Kanjirakattu George for facilitating the VR experience and conducting interviews during GDW21, as it was not possible for the PhD researcher to travel from the UK to Australia due to COVID-19.

Publisher Copyright:
© The Authors, 2021. All Rights Reserved.

Keywords

Cultural heritage
Gamification
Immersive technology
Museums
Storytelling
Virtual reality

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Computer Networks and Communications
Human-Computer Interaction
Software
Control and Systems Engineering
Education

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Interactive storytelling experience for museums in the era of COVID-19. / Alatrash, Saif ; Arnab, Sylvester; Antlej, Kaja.
Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Game Based Learning, ECGBL 2021. ed. / Panagiotis Fotaris. Dechema e.V., 2021. p. 795-802 (Proceedings of the European Conference on Games-based Learning; Vol. 2021-September).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review

Alatrash, S , Arnab, S & Antlej, K 2021, Interactive storytelling experience for museums in the era of COVID-19. in P Fotaris (ed.), Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Game Based Learning, ECGBL 2021. Proceedings of the European Conference on Games-based Learning, vol. 2021-September, Dechema e.V., pp. 795-802, 15th European Conference on Games Based Learning, Brighton, United Kingdom, 23/09/21. https://doi.org/10.34190/GBL.21.009

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Interactive storytelling experience for museums in the era of COVID-19

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