"I was Holding a Magic Box": Investigating the Effects of Private and Projected Displays in Outdoor Heritage Walks
Mayank Loonker, Sophia Ppali, Rocio von Jungenfeld, Christos Efstratiou, Alexandra Covaci
DIS'22: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS)
Session: Space & Interaction
Abstract
Location-aware mobile guides are a popular technology for enhancing the experience of heritage walks in historical outdoor sites. Smartphones, as typical mediums for such systems, have been criticised for limiting users’ opportunities for embodied engagement with the environment. In this work, we investigate how display technologies beyond the traditional personal mobile screen can facilitate embodied experiences during outdoor heritage walks. To do this, we revisit the use of portable projected displays as a medium that allows us to explore the effects of overt and blended displays in this context. We conducted a study with 42 participants on an outdoor heritage walk, using two display modalities: smartphone and projected display. We discovered that besides the display modality, users’ attitude toward technology, their embodied relationship with the device, and incorporation of spatial aspects in interaction play a key role in generating engagement and shaping the experience of heritage walks.
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1145/3532106.3533463
WEB:: https://dis.acm.org/2022/
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