The impact of game-based design on visitor engagement with a science museum app

Brian Nelson; Catherine Bowman; Judd Bowman; Younsu Kim

The impact of game-based design on visitor engagement with a science museum app

Brian Nelson, Catherine Bowman, Judd Bowman, Younsu Kim

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Abstract

Ask Dr. Discovery is a National Science Foundation-funded study addressing the need for affordable, ongoing, large-scale museum evaluation while investigating innovative ways to encourage museum visitors to engage deeply with museum content. To realize these aims, we are developing and implementing a mobile app with two parts: 1) a front-end virtual scientist called Dr. Discovery (Dr. D) for use by museum visitors that doubles as an unobtrusive data-gatherer and 2) a back-end analytics portal to be mined by museum staff, evaluators, and researchers. With a partnership between Arizona State University (ASU), the Arizona Science Center (ASC), and the Arizona Museum of Natural History (AZMNH), we are developing this app to function as a platform for STEM informal education, research, and data-driven decision-making by museum staff. In this paper, we describe the impact of a game version of the Dr. D app on visitor engagement with the app, specifically investigating whether visitors using the game version of Dr. D ask more questions of the app than visitors using a baseline non-game version.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Game-Based Learning, ECGBL 2018
Editors	Melanie Ciussi
Publisher	Dechema e.V.
Pages	479-486
Number of pages	8
Volume	2018-October
ISBN (Electronic)	9781911218999
State	Published - Jan 1 2018
Event	12th European Conference on Game Based Learning, ECGBL 2018 - Sophia Antipolis, France Duration: Oct 4 2018 → Oct 5 2018

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Other	12th European Conference on Game Based Learning, ECGBL 2018
Country/Territory	France
City	Sophia Antipolis
Period	10/4/18 → 10/5/18

Keywords

Game-based learning
Informal science education
Museum evaluation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Computer Networks and Communications
Human-Computer Interaction
Software
Control and Systems Engineering
Education

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The impact of game-based design on visitor engagement with a science museum app. / Nelson, Brian; Bowman, Catherine; Bowman, Judd et al.
Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Game-Based Learning, ECGBL 2018. ed. / Melanie Ciussi. Vol. 2018-October Dechema e.V., 2018. p. 479-486.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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