Educational Effectiveness of Virtual Museum
AUTHORS
YoungJe Yu,Hallym University
Woo Hyung June,
Sun-Jeong Kim,
Chang Geun Song,
ABSTRACT
The museum is one of the tourist resources that many tourists visit. In a typical museum, the curator will explain and deliver information to the visitors taking the visitors age and level of background knowledge into considerations. However, it is true that there are few curators in most museum. Audio guides have been used to help visitors understand and appreciate exhibition instead of curators. Recently, NFC tags have been used to improve the facility of old audio guide. In this paper, we use virtual reality, which is actively being used not only in movies but also in education to configure a virtual reality museum environment. We compare exhibition methods in a virtual reality museums and in actual museums. First, a survey is conducted for subjective evaluation of museum exhibition and actual museums. Second, a post-exhibition quiz is used to determine the objective effects of museum exhibition. Based on these results, we show the validity of the virtual reality museum.
KEYWORDS
Virtual reality, Curator, Museum, Education.
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