Research Article

ENHANCING USER EXPERIENCE AT MUSEUMS WITH DATA COLLECTION THROUGH AUGMENTED REALITY (AR) APPLICATIONS

Volume: 1 Number: 2 June 30, 2021
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ENHANCING USER EXPERIENCE AT MUSEUMS WITH DATA COLLECTION THROUGH AUGMENTED REALITY (AR) APPLICATIONS

Abstract

In our paper, we examined six AR applications used in today’s museums. Although all examined examples improve the user experience from different digital perspectives, none of them improves the physical infrastructure of the museums. We recommend data-oriented, cost-effective, and distributed applications using AR technology to enhance the user experience in both the digital and physical world. Suggested improvements are obtained by implementing new AR applications and utilizing the data collection potential of the existing applications. We would like to emphasize the AR applications’ potential to act as a medium to measure visitor behaviors and usage statistics. We explain how some insights from this big data can be used to improve the physical structure of the museums. We argue that compared to using museums’ resources, a distributed network of user devices lowers initial costs and improves data collection rates while enhancing the experience with AR abilities. This distributed AR approach also offers refreshed experiences compared to static structures with its ability to get updates in time. Some examples of how to use the collected data from existing AR applications and two new AR usage cases for museums are explained in this paper. Our research also showed that this data-oriented approach is not used by any AR application developed for museums today and there is a great potential for user experience improvement in this sector.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Industrial Engineering

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

June 30, 2021

Submission Date

June 27, 2021

Acceptance Date

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Published in Issue

Year 2021 Volume: 1 Number: 2

APA
Yılmaz, H., & Apilioğulları, L. (2021). ENHANCING USER EXPERIENCE AT MUSEUMS WITH DATA COLLECTION THROUGH AUGMENTED REALITY (AR) APPLICATIONS. Tasarım Mimarlık Ve Mühendislik Dergisi, 1(2), 119-126. https://izlik.org/JA23TA36GB
AMA
1.Yılmaz H, Apilioğulları L. ENHANCING USER EXPERIENCE AT MUSEUMS WITH DATA COLLECTION THROUGH AUGMENTED REALITY (AR) APPLICATIONS. DAE. 2021;1(2):119-126. https://izlik.org/JA23TA36GB
Chicago
Yılmaz, Halis, and Lütfi Apilioğulları. 2021. “ENHANCING USER EXPERIENCE AT MUSEUMS WITH DATA COLLECTION THROUGH AUGMENTED REALITY (AR) APPLICATIONS”. Tasarım Mimarlık Ve Mühendislik Dergisi 1 (2): 119-26. https://izlik.org/JA23TA36GB.
EndNote
Yılmaz H, Apilioğulları L (June 1, 2021) ENHANCING USER EXPERIENCE AT MUSEUMS WITH DATA COLLECTION THROUGH AUGMENTED REALITY (AR) APPLICATIONS. Tasarım Mimarlık ve Mühendislik Dergisi 1 2 119–126.
IEEE
[1]H. Yılmaz and L. Apilioğulları, “ENHANCING USER EXPERIENCE AT MUSEUMS WITH DATA COLLECTION THROUGH AUGMENTED REALITY (AR) APPLICATIONS”, DAE, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 119–126, June 2021, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA23TA36GB
ISNAD
Yılmaz, Halis - Apilioğulları, Lütfi. “ENHANCING USER EXPERIENCE AT MUSEUMS WITH DATA COLLECTION THROUGH AUGMENTED REALITY (AR) APPLICATIONS”. Tasarım Mimarlık ve Mühendislik Dergisi 1/2 (June 1, 2021): 119-126. https://izlik.org/JA23TA36GB.
JAMA
1.Yılmaz H, Apilioğulları L. ENHANCING USER EXPERIENCE AT MUSEUMS WITH DATA COLLECTION THROUGH AUGMENTED REALITY (AR) APPLICATIONS. DAE. 2021;1:119–126.
MLA
Yılmaz, Halis, and Lütfi Apilioğulları. “ENHANCING USER EXPERIENCE AT MUSEUMS WITH DATA COLLECTION THROUGH AUGMENTED REALITY (AR) APPLICATIONS”. Tasarım Mimarlık Ve Mühendislik Dergisi, vol. 1, no. 2, June 2021, pp. 119-26, https://izlik.org/JA23TA36GB.
Vancouver
1.Halis Yılmaz, Lütfi Apilioğulları. ENHANCING USER EXPERIENCE AT MUSEUMS WITH DATA COLLECTION THROUGH AUGMENTED REALITY (AR) APPLICATIONS. DAE [Internet]. 2021 Jun. 1;1(2):119-26. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA23TA36GB