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Re-Thinking Real Time Video Making for the Museum Exhibition Space
No full textIntroduction `Science and technology' museums of the last half century afford visitors an entirely new experience while maintaining their learning function [Bell 2002]. Within the context of a three-month exhibition on the history of robots at The Ark: a Cultural Center for Children, in Dublin, Ireland, we have created a system for visitors to author the content of the exhibition space by creating their own movies and telling visual stories using robots. The challenge of making a finished video is combined with the challenge of engaging exhibition visitors to make their own thematic visual story. Within the short time frame allowed and given the low attentional focus that can be expected of the visitors, capturing and projecting a video would certainly be satisfying, however we wanted to allow more novelty in the interaction and provide a minimum of editing features such as voice over, soundtracks, and video effects. We also aim to engage the audience in creating a final movie and i
