Abstract:
This project explores museum interactions and how they affect people of different ages. We identified a less explored area of study: how children, ages 7 to 12, engage with museum exhibits and further how such engagement influences their language and cultural development. The first part of the project is a thorough assessment of the literature covering the four main areas of our study museums, children aged 7 - 12, language and culture learning and collaborative learning. Looking at other methods of interaction that have been used and studied in the past. We recognised major obstacles to tackle, such as low recall in the children and we can’t exert high cognitive load. To help visualize our ideas we created an outline for drafting illustrations and projections with an architecture and taxonomy for the technologies and interactions proposed for our project. Going ahead, we will engage with children through these illustrations and questionnaires, employing research through design methodology to implement our prototype.
