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Breakbeat Narratives: A Personalized, Conversational Interactive Storytelling System for Museum Education

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Danielle Marie Olson,

Nouran Soliman,

Magdalena Price,

D. Fox HarrellAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '20: Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3382974

Published: 25 April 2020 Publication History

Abstract

We introduce a novel interactive narrative exhibit supporting general public learning about Hip Hop culture and history developed as a collaboration of the MIT Center for Advanced Virtuality, the Universal Hip Hop Museum, and Microsoft and supported by the TunesMap Educational Foundation and internationally known Afrofuturist artists Black Kirby. The exhibit's narrative system is personalized by categorizing users based on evaluating their input data light of a social psychology-based model based in musical identity theory. The system uses user input to determine which interactive narrative and customized music playlist to present to the user. The system has been deployed as the central interactive display within the [R]Evolution of Hip Hop for an exhibit of the Universal Hip Hop Museum. Future work will involve analysis of user feedback data from the thousands of local and international exhibit visitors to determine the impact of personalization on visitor engagement, satisfaction, and learning.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544548.3581109
Bray KHarrington C(2021)Speculative Blackness: Considering Afrofuturism in the Creation of Inclusive Speculative Design ProbesProceedings of the 2021 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference10.1145/3461778.3462002(1793-1806)Online publication date: 28-Jun-2021
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Zeng KCao G(2021)Application of VR Technology in Museum Narrative Design with Computer Vision Models2021 5th International Conference on Computing Methodologies and Communication (ICCMC)10.1109/ICCMC51019.2021.9418483(913-916)Online publication date: 8-Apr-2021
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCMC51019.2021.9418483

Index Terms

Breakbeat Narratives: A Personalized, Conversational Interactive Storytelling System for Museum Education
1. Applied computing
  1. Arts and humanities
    1. Media arts
  2. Education
    1. Interactive learning environments
2. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
    1. Users and interactive retrieval
      1. Personalization

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DOI:10.1145/3334480

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University of Washington, USA

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Halperin BHsieh GMcElroy EPierce JRosner D(2023)Probing a Community-Based Conversational Storytelling Agent to Document Digital Stories of Housing InsecurityProceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3544548.3581109(1-18)Online publication date: 19-Apr-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544548.3581109
Bray KHarrington C(2021)Speculative Blackness: Considering Afrofuturism in the Creation of Inclusive Speculative Design ProbesProceedings of the 2021 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference10.1145/3461778.3462002(1793-1806)Online publication date: 28-Jun-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3461778.3462002
Zeng KCao G(2021)Application of VR Technology in Museum Narrative Design with Computer Vision Models2021 5th International Conference on Computing Methodologies and Communication (ICCMC)10.1109/ICCMC51019.2021.9418483(913-916)Online publication date: 8-Apr-2021
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCMC51019.2021.9418483

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