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Äänijälki: Opening Dialogues for Visually Impaired Inclusion in Museums. International Workshop. Re-Thinking Technology in Museums: Towards a New Understanding of People’s Experience in Museums (2005)
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@MISC{Salgado05äänijälki:opening,
author = {Mariana Salgado and Arto Kellokoski},
title = {Äänijälki: Opening Dialogues for Visually Impaired Inclusion in Museums. International Workshop. Re-Thinking Technology in Museums: Towards a New Understanding of People’s Experience in Museums},
year = {2005}
}
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Abstract
This paper describes the project: Äänijälki, keskustelun avaus (Sound-trace, Opening the dialogue). The project is used as a case study for analysing visitor experience enhanced through active participation in museum exhibitions. While walking through an exhibition, visitors have access to the message from the museum. The experience is more engaging when visitors go to an exhibition with a friend that knows about the subject exhibited. The whole practice refreshes when someone tells the visitor something that connects her own life with the exhibition in an informal language with personal opinions. The idea of the project is to open this dialogue with other, possibly anonymous, visitors in order to augment users ’ experience. The way this idea takes shape is creating a social tool for exchanging comments about the experience of going to and being in an exhibition, leaving audio traces in the process. These traces allow a dialogue within visitors that are not necessarily present at the same time in the exhibition. Äänijälki is a service for visually impaired people and their related community for exchanging advises about exhibitions. Äänijälki is an instrument for enhancing accessibility and the experience in the context of Finnish museums. At the same time, it is a platform for collaborative sound gathering created mainly by visually impaired people. Despite that, our aim is that every visitor can listen Äänijälkiä (sound-traces).
Keyphrases
nij lki visually impaired inclusion re-thinking technology new understanding international workshop opening dialogue impaired people collaborative sound gathering social tool whole practice refreshes visitor something personal opinion visitor experience case study museum exhibition related community audio trace informal language finnish museum active participation
