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Elliston, Brian and FitzGerald, Elizabeth
(2012).
URL: http://csedu.org/Program/2012/CSEDU_paperList.htm
Abstract
We describe the building and testing of a museum audio tour with content recorded as spontaneous interactive dialogue between two curators as they walked around an art gallery. The aim was to produce a guide which would increase the amount of topically relevant talk shared by people visiting a museum in groups of two or more. Conversation analysis is used to show how a pair of visitors engaged more with the content of the guide than they would have with audio produced as traditional scripted monologue. Examples of a variety of engagement types are detailed and a supporting rationale drawing on Goffman's theory of 'footing' is discussed. The approach potentially offers a low cost way for organisations involved in informal learning to produce flexible in-house audio content for mobile and e-learning, which improves visitor engagement both with the content and with one another, and leads to a more enjoyable visitor/learner experience than traditional forms of audio.
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- Item ORO ID
- 33153
- Item Type
- Conference or Workshop Item
- Project Funding Details
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Funded Project Name Project ID Funding Body Not Set Not Set Brian Elliston is supported by the Horizon Doctoral Training Centre at the University of Nottingham (RCUK Grant No. EP/G037574/1). - Keywords
- audio guides; mobile learning; conversation analysis; footing; human-computer interaction; informal learning
- Academic Unit or School
- Institute of Educational Technology (IET)
- Research Group
- Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET)
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- © 2012 The Authors
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- Depositing User
- Elizabeth FitzGerald
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