Exploring Effects of Full-body Control in Perspective-based Learning in an Interactive Museum Data Display

Abstract

Many factors are known to mediate museum visitors' learning during their interactions with exhibits, including designed elements of the exhibit itself, the other visitors present in the space, and visitors' own backgrounds and prior knowledge. Research indicates that learners' use of a first-person Actor perspective may confer agency to the learner and allow him to more easily reason about otherwise abstract concepts. Our preliminary research shows that full-body interaction with museum exhibits (specifically, an exhibit presenting a rich interactive data visualization), seems to promote both perspective-taking and improved data reasoning. This research builds on that work to clarify the affordances of perspective taking in mediating learning in this environment by comparing two methods of control of the interactive exhibit -- full-body and handheld -- in order to understand how each condition can support perspective taking and data reasoning.

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