The Smaller the Better? A Study on Acceptance of 3D Display of Exhibits of Museum’s Mobile Media

Abstract

In the context of the mature development of mobile media and mobile interaction, many museums have built their own mobile media to digitally display their collections, but the user’s acceptance of this mobile media is not known. Based on the interactive attributes and information display attributes of the museum’s mobile collections, this article has compiled a scale to select the most convincing research object from the 204 national first-class museums in China: the Mini Program of the Palace Museum, Digital Forbidden City, and conduct user acceptance research on the 3D display function of its collections. This research is based on the technology acceptance model, adding new influencing factors to obtain a more accurate model for questionnaire surveys, and using the structural equation model to analyze the data. A total of 200 valid questionnaires were collected in this study. The analysis results revealed some problems with the 3D display function of the museum’s mobile collections: high learning costs, poor user interaction experience, and incomplete collection information. The study results have a very novel reference value for museums to improve the 3D display function of the mobile terminal and directly help museums to optimize users’ experience of using mobile terminal media.

Appendix. The Scores of All National First-Class Museums with the 3D Display Function of Mobile Media Collections.

Museum	Score	Museum	Score	Museum	Score
The Palace Museum	13	Henan Museum	6	Chifeng Museum	5
Hebei Museum	11	The Shenyang Palace Museum	6	Wuxi Museum	5
Qinghai Province Museum	11	Changzhou Museum	6	Lushan Museum	5
Palace Museum of the Manchurian Regime	10	Guangdong Folk Arts Museum	6	National Museum of Chinese Writing	5
Luoyang Museum	9	Chifeng Museum	6	Ganzhou Museum	5
Nantong Museum	9	Suizhou Museum	6	Zhangqiu District Museum, Jinan City	5
Weifang Museum	8	The Military Museum of the Chinese People’s Revolution	5	Changsha Museum	5
Capital Museum,China	8	Liaoning Provincial Museum	5	Guangzhou Museum of Art	5
Sanxingdui Museum	8	Hubei Provincial Museum	5	Yunnan Provincial Museum	4
Dalian Natural History Museum	8	Wuhan Museum	5	Yunnan Nationalities Museum	4
Heilongjiang Provincial Museum of Nationalities	8	Tibet Museum	5	Tianjin Museum	4
Anhui Museum	7	Quanzhou Maritime Museum	5	Xibaipo Museum	4
National Museum of China	7	Han Yangling Museum	5	Chengdu Wuhou Shrine Museum	4
Xuzhou Museum	7	Shenzhen Museum	5	China Museum for Fujian-Taiwan Kinship	4
Linyi Museum	7	Jinsha Site Museum	5	The Guyuan Museum of Ningxia	4
China (Hainan) Museum of the South China Sea	7	Xi’an Museum	5	Ningxia Museum	4
Chongqing China Three Gorges Museum (Chongqing Museum)	6	Chen Yun Memorial	5	Ningbo Museum	4
Jiangxi Provincial Museum	6	Nanjing Museum Administration	5	China National Silk Museum	4
Qingdao Municipal Museum	6	Wenzhou Museum	5	Jinggangshan Revolution Museum	4
Shanxi Museum	6	Wuhan Zhongshan Warship Museum	5	Chongqing Hongyan Revolution History Museum	4
Shaanxi History Museum	4	Zhejiang Provincial Museum	3	Dalian Modern Museum	2
Emperor Qinshihuang’s Mausoleum Site Museum	4	Emperor Qinshihuang’s Mausoleum Site Museum	3	Anthropology Museum of Guangxi	2
Hunan Museum	4	Prince Kung’s Mansion	3	Linfen Museum	2
Central Soviet Area (MinXi) history Museum	4	Hangzhou Museum	3	Longhua Martyr Cemetery of Shanghai	2
Beijing Auto Museum	4	China Huizhou Culture Museum	3	Imperial Examination Museum of China	2
Yuhuatai Martyrs Memorial Hall	4	Chongqing Museum of Natural History	3	Ningbo Tianyige Museum	2
Wuxi Museum	4	China National Film Museum	3	Zhoushan Museum	2
Changshu Museum	4	Shanxi Museum of Geology	3	Qi Heritage Museum	2
China National Tea Museum	4	China National Tea Museum	3	Jinan City Museum	2
Hangzhou Arts and Crafts Museum	4	Revolutionary Memorial Hall of South Lake	3	Chengdu Museum	2
Ningbo Tianyige Museum	4	Anhui Geological Museum	3	Comrade Zhu De’s Former Residence Memorial	2
China Port Museum	4	Badashanren Memorial Hall	3	Guizhou Provincial Museum	2
Tengzhou Museum of Han Carved Stones	4	Jingdezhen China Ceramics Museum	3	Tso-Ngon(Qinghai) Tibetan Culture Museum	2
Pingdingshan Museum	4	Confucius Museum	3	Zunyi Conference Memorial Hall	1
5·12 Wenchuan Earthquake Memorial Museum	4	Anyang Museum	3	The Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders	1
Suzhou Museum (Jiangsu)	4	Wuhan Revolutionary Museum	3	Shandong Museum	1
Dunhuang Academy	3	The Opium War Museum	3	Shanghai Science and Technology Museum	1
Zhengzhou Museum	3	Guilin Museum	3	Zhejiang Museum of Natural History	1
Beijing Luxun Museum and the New Cultural Movement Memorial of Beijing	3	Jianchuan Museum	3	Ruijin Central Revolutionary Base Memorial Hall	1
Lvshun Museum	3	Crossing the Chishui River Four Times Memorial	3	Nanchang August 1st Memorial Hall	1
The Museum of the Nanyue King of Western Han Dynasty	3	Taihang Memorial Museum of the Eighth Route Army	2	Gansu Provincial Museum	1
The Museum of Dr.Sun Yat-sen	3	Liaoning Provincial Museum	2	Zigong Salt Making Industry History Museum	1
The 9.18 Historial Museum	3	Beijing Planetarium	2	Tianshui Museum	1
Site of the first National Congress of the Communist Party of China	3	Zigong Dinosaur Museum	2	Museum of the War of the Chinese People’s Resistance Against Japanese Aggression	1
Fujian Museum	3	Northeast China Revolutionary Martyrs Memorial Hall	2	Tsinghua University Art Museum	1
Qingzhou Museum	3	Forest of Stone Steles Museum	2	Peking-Tianjin Campaign Memorial Museum	1
Jilin Provincal Museum	3	Museum of Heilongjiang Province	2	Chongqing Three Gorges Immigrant Memorial Hall (Chongqing Wanzhou District Museum)	1
Tianjin Natural History Museum	3	Shaanxi History Museum	2
Shanghai Museum	3	Ordos Museum	2