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Tolmie, Peter, Benford, Steve, Greenhalgh, Chris, Rodden, Tom and Reeves, Stuart (2014) Supporting group interactions in museum visiting. In: 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 14), 15-19 Feb 2014, Baltimore, USA.

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Abstract

Ethnographic study in two contrasting museums highlights a widespread but rarely documented challenge for CSCW design. Visitors' engagement with exhibits often ends prematurely due to the need to keep up with or attend to fellow group members. We unpack the mechanics of these kinds of phenomena revealing how the behaviours of summoning, pressurizing, herding, sidelining, and rounding up, lead to the responses of following, skimming and digging in. We show how the problem is especially challenging where young children are involved. As an initial prompt we explore two ways in which CSCW could help address this challenge: enabling a more fluid association between information and exhibits; and helping reconfigure the social nature of visiting.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
RIS ID:	https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/997286
Additional Information:	Published in: Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing. New York : ACM, 2014, ISBN: 978-1-4503-2540-0, pp. 1049-1059 , doi: 10.1145/2531602.2531619
Keywords:	Museums; Collaboration; Visiting practices; Ethnography
Schools/Departments:	University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Science > School of Computer Science
Depositing User:	Reeves, Stuart
Date Deposited:	21 Jul 2015 10:45
Last Modified:	04 May 2020 20:15
URI:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/28870

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