Designing mobile augmented reality art applications:addressing the views of the galleries and the artists

Coulton, Paul, Smith, Richard, Murphy, Emma, ČopičPucihar, Klen and Lochrie, Mark orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-7909-8455 (2014) Designing mobile augmented reality art applications:addressing the views of the galleries and the artists. In: AcademicMindTrek '14 18th International Academic MindTrek Conference: Media Business, management, Content and Services, 4th - 6th November 2014, Tampere, Finland.

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Abstract

The utilization of mobile augmented reality to display gallery artworks or museum content in novel ways is a well-established concept in the augmented reality research community. However, the focus of these systems is generally technologically driven or only addresses the end user and not the views of the gallery or the original artist. In this paper we discuss the design and development of the mobile application ?Taking the Artwork Home?, which allows people to digitally curate their own augmented reality art exhibitions in their own homes by digitally ?replacing? the pictures they have on their walls with content from the Peter Scott Gallery in Lancaster. In particular, we present the insights gained from a research through design methodology that allowed us to consider how the views of the gallery and artists impacted on the system design and therefore the user experience. Thus the final artifact is the result of an iterative evaluation process with over 100 users representing a broad range of demographics and continues to be evaluated/enhanced by observing its operation ?in the wild?. Further, we consider the effect the project has had on gallery practices to enable both augmented reality designers, and galleries and museums to maximize the potential application of the technology when working together on such projects


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