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- Augmented Reality Museum’s Gaming for Digital Natives: Haunted Encounters in the Carvalhal’s PalacePublication . Nisi, Valentina; Cesário, Vanessa; Nunes, NunoMemories of Carvalhal’s Palace – Haunted Encounters is an Aug mented Reality (AR) location-based game which involves players in uncovering the mystery behind the haunted aspects of a museum premises. The game de ployed at the Natural History Museum of Funchal makes use of mobile interac tive AR and gaming strategies to promote the engagement of teenage visitors (digital natives) in museum experiences. Through this game, the audience em barks in a journey through the museum spaces, collecting scientific information about selected exhibits, while interacting with their tridimensional (3D) AR mod els. The audience’s interactions with the museum exhibits are rewarded with pieces of a map, which will guide them to a hidden location, the scientific library of the museum. There participants can finally unlock the mysteries they have been summoned to solve. The game’s goal stems from the fact that digital native teenagers are identified as an audience group that is often excluded from a mu seum’s curatorial strategies [1] and as consequence, they appears to be generally disinterested in what museums might offer [2]. In this article, we present the de scription and rational behind Memories of Carvalhal’s Palace: Haunted Encoun ters mobile gaming application and then discuss the results of first empirical tests performed to evaluate the usefulness and usability of the game.
- Gaming versus storytelling: understanding children’s interactive experiences in a museum settingPublication . Radeta, Marko; Cesário, Vanessa; Matos, Sónia; Nisi, ValentinaMuseum’s audiences are increasingly looking for compelling expe‐ riences where, besides learning, engagement and enjoyment are key success factors. While gaming and storytelling are considered to be common approaches to engage audiences with a museum’s collections, a formal comparison of the two has not been found in literature. In this paper, we present the design and compa‐ rative study of two distinct interventions, namely a mobile game and a mobile story that were designed to engage a young audience with the exhibit of the local natural history museum. Focusing on the same scientific content derived from the museum’s collection, we compare the effects of both interactive experiences on a group of children. When comparing engagement, enjoyment and learning outcomes, we correlate results with data derived from observations and skin conductance biofeedback. The data collected so far suggest that children are 27% more excited when using the game application compared with the story driven one. Moreover, we find that children’s excitement peaks when encountering selected artefacts presented in the museum exhibit. Finally, children’s learning nearly doubled (44%) when using the game based experience versus the story. We conclude the paper by discussing the implications of our findings and by proposing potential future improvements.