KIÁLLÍTÁSBELI DIGITÁLIS ALKALMAZÁSOK KIÉRTÉKELÉSE - EGY EGYETEMI PILOT PROJEKT TANULSÁGAI
EVALUATION OF DIGITAL APPLICATIONS IN EXHIBITIONS - LESSONS FROM A UNIVERSITY PILOT PROJECT

Summary/Abstract: Digital applications, based on contemporary principles of modern pedagogy (learning by doing, multimodal learning, joint and active occupation) provide tools also for museums and exhibitions to attract young audiences. The envisioned goals may range from providing detailed knowledge, refuting misbelieves, via raising interest for the topic of the exhibition till making the museum visit a pleasant, joyful and attractive experience. The fulfillment of these goals – that is, the „profit” gained by the digital applications – should be proven by academic visitors research, which delivers information about the actual usage of the applications, valuable both for the museum staff and the creative designers and developers inking of involved in the making. For the time being, one can come across only a few such studies, which is strongly related to the lack of established research methodologies and tools. What methodologies could be appropriate? In the light of the diversity of topics and usage context of the applications, is it at all realistic to aim at a general ground for the academic study of their effect? We, in the framework of a pilot research, carried out in the framework of a single term Research-Development- Innovation university course at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, outlined the methods and instruments of measuring the usage of digital applications in museums. We used the permanent exhibition of the - House of Music Hungary for the concrete case study. The constraints of the sampling of the visitors did not make it possible to gain significant results, but the study provided some surprising observations. The main merit of our work is the applied own methodology, which may serve as a basis for further investigations with similar goals.

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