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ColourMirror—Connecting Visitors with Exhibits by an Interactive Installation

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Museums are in transformation, along with today’s rapidly changing society. Digital technologies not only attract the young generations as potential visitors, but they also create entirely new ways of interpretation, engagement and outreach. As a case study, we introduce our ColourMirror, a multifunctional digital installation accompanying a museum exhibition in which objects are arranged by colour. In a ‘magical’ mirror, visitors get to see the exhibit that resembles their own colours the most. They may forward and distribute the image in the mirror. The collected data is the basis of animated visualizations. An empirical study of usage and visitor experience reveals that visitors enjoy the interaction, remember well and identify with the object they have been assigned, and feel motivated by digital installations to visit an exhibition. We sum up major lessons and potential further applications.

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    Museum and the Web: https://www.museumsandtheweb.com/ Museum Next international conferences: https://www.museumnext.com/

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    For information and videos on a list of our museum projects, see http://techlab.mome.hu.

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    See http://techlab.mome.hu/dimu.

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    http://szintukor.imm.hu/en/.

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Acknowledgements

The ColourMirror was designed and implemented by an interdisciplinary team: Zoltán Csík-Kovács, Ágoston Nagy, Gáspár Hajdu, Gábor Papp, Bence Samu and Zsófia Ruttkay. We are thankful for Szilvia Silye for her contribution to the design and execution of the empirical study. We are also grateful to the staff of the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest, and to Dániel Kiss for his help with preparing this article.

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    Jürgen Sieck

  3. Computer Science, Namibia University of Science and Technology, Windhoek, Namibia

    Hippolyte N'Sung-Nza Muyingi

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Ruttkay, Z. (2018). ColourMirror—Connecting Visitors with Exhibits by an Interactive Installation. In: Jat, D., Sieck, J., Muyingi, HN., Winschiers-Theophilus, H., Peters, A., Nggada, S. (eds) Digitisation of Culture: Namibian and International Perspectives. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7697-8_18

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