Title
Making Magic: Designing for Open Interactions in Museum Settings
Abstract
This paper describes three interactive artefacts created for a children's exhibition intended to encourage creativity and allow educational opportunities to emerge naturally through playful exploration. We describe five sensibilities that were used to inform our designs: considering artefacts as resources and scaffolds for imaginative engagement, rewarding extended investment, facilitating requisite unpredictability, encouraging an imaginative orientation to participation, and permitting multiple loci for interaction. Based on observation of how our interactives were used by the public, we discuss how our approach facilitated \"open interactions\" in a manner that was sensitive to the museum context, favoured a mix of materialities, and manifested a subtle mix of participation and designer autonomy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2757226.2757241
Creativity & Cognition
Field
DocType
Citations 
Sociology,Autonomy,Digital art,Exhibition,Performance art,Human–computer interaction,Magic (paranormal),Creativity
Conference
8
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.55
9
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Robyn Taylor115115.29
John Bowers267766.95
Bettina Nissen3644.75
gavin wood418218.27
Qasim Chaudhry580.89
Peter C. Wright653683.66
Lindsey Bruce780.55
Sarah Glynn880.55
Helen Mallinson980.55
Roy Bearpark1080.55