Design Patterns to Enhance Teens’ Museum Experiences
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Teenagers are an understudied group within the Interaction Design and Children community. Museums and cultural heritage spaces offer solutions for young children but do not target teenagers in particular. Teens, are a large pool of potential museum audiences. They should be given a “voice” and involved early in the design process to maximize chances of involvement in the museum practices and offers, hence, it is crucial to study their interests and desires to deploy a high quality and enjoyable product. For these reason, we deployed several co-design sessions with a total of 155 teenage participants, in order to understand how would they prefer to engage with museum tours. The authors, based on Madeira island (Portugal), used the Natural History Museum of Funchal as a case study. The participants were asked to ideate a mobile museum experience that they would enjoy. Through qualitative analysis, we gathered insights regarding six main themes that they reported as prompts in order to visit the Natural History Museum of Funchal, such as 1) gaming, 2) interactions, 3) localization, 4) social media, 5) aspects of the museum studied, and 6) photos. These findings are preliminary and still need testing and validation.
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The lack of motivation to visit heritage exhibitions is particularly noticeable among adolescents, where exhibition information is often perceived as irrelevant.
“This issue is particularly noticeable among the adolescent population [11,12], where the information displayed during exhibitions is often perceived as irrelevant.”
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Section 1 says museums often fail to engage teenagers and lack tours or guidance tailored to them, supporting the claim about adolescent engagement. The concluding remarks say teenagers sought more exciting, less mundane experiences, but the paper does not say they often perceive exhibition information as irrelevant. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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- Authors
- Cesário, V., Coelho, A., & Nisi, V.
- Affiliations
- Universidade do Porto (PT)
- Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto & INESC TEC Portugal
- Venue
- Electronic Workshops in Computing
- Publisher
- BCS Learning & Development
- Published
- 2018
- ISSN
- 1477-9358 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2901769251
- Cited by
- 13
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 4
- FWCI
- 12.55
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- Electronic workshops in computing (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação, Tecnologia e Inovação
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Museology › Museums and Cultural Heritage
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Interactive and Immersive Displays
- Keywords
- adolescents, museum visitor experience, co-design, museum tours, design patterns, gaming, social media, localization, natural history museums, Madeira, participatory design
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