DeCACHe: Supporting Designers in Creating Cognition-Centered Adaptive Cultural Heritage Activities

Cultural heritage (CH) institutions attract wide and heterogeneous audiences, which should be efficiently supported and have access to meaningful CH content. This introduces numerous challenges when delivering such experiences, given that people have different cognitive characteristics which influen...

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Main Authors: George E. Raptis, Christos Sintoris, Nikolaos Avouris
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-08-01
Series:Heritage
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2571-9408/2/3/158
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spelling doaj-8e19eedb619a43f7bacc7788d8e736c72020-11-25T02:03:36ZengMDPI AGHeritage2571-94082019-08-01232573259610.3390/heritage2030158heritage2030158DeCACHe: Supporting Designers in Creating Cognition-Centered Adaptive Cultural Heritage ActivitiesGeorge E. Raptis0Christos Sintoris1Nikolaos Avouris2HCI Group, Interactive Technologies Laboratory, University of Patras, 26500 Patras, GreeceHCI Group, Interactive Technologies Laboratory, University of Patras, 26500 Patras, GreeceHCI Group, Interactive Technologies Laboratory, University of Patras, 26500 Patras, GreeceCultural heritage (CH) institutions attract wide and heterogeneous audiences, which should be efficiently supported and have access to meaningful CH content. This introduces numerous challenges when delivering such experiences, given that people have different cognitive characteristics which influence the way we process information, experience, behave, and acquire knowledge. Our recent studies provide evidence that human cognition should be considered as a personalization factor within CH contexts, and thus we developed a framework that delivers cognition-centered personalized CH activities. The efficiency and the efficacy of the framework have been successfully assessed through two user studies, but non-technical professionals (e.g., CH designers) may face difficulties when attempting to use it and create personalized CH activities. In this paper, we present <i>DeCACHe</i>, which supports CH designers in creating cognition-centered personalized CH activities throughout different phases of the design lifecycle. We also report a user study with seventeen professional CH designers, who used our tool to design CH activities for people with different cognitive characteristics.https://www.mdpi.com/2571-9408/2/3/158cultural heritagecognitioncognitive characteristicspersonalizationadaptationdesign supportactivity designuser modeling
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author George E. Raptis
Christos Sintoris
Nikolaos Avouris
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Nikolaos Avouris
DeCACHe: Supporting Designers in Creating Cognition-Centered Adaptive Cultural Heritage Activities
Heritage
cultural heritage
cognition
cognitive characteristics
personalization
adaptation
design support
activity design
user modeling
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Christos Sintoris
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title DeCACHe: Supporting Designers in Creating Cognition-Centered Adaptive Cultural Heritage Activities
title_short DeCACHe: Supporting Designers in Creating Cognition-Centered Adaptive Cultural Heritage Activities
title_full DeCACHe: Supporting Designers in Creating Cognition-Centered Adaptive Cultural Heritage Activities
title_fullStr DeCACHe: Supporting Designers in Creating Cognition-Centered Adaptive Cultural Heritage Activities
title_full_unstemmed DeCACHe: Supporting Designers in Creating Cognition-Centered Adaptive Cultural Heritage Activities
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publisher MDPI AG
series Heritage
issn 2571-9408
publishDate 2019-08-01
description Cultural heritage (CH) institutions attract wide and heterogeneous audiences, which should be efficiently supported and have access to meaningful CH content. This introduces numerous challenges when delivering such experiences, given that people have different cognitive characteristics which influence the way we process information, experience, behave, and acquire knowledge. Our recent studies provide evidence that human cognition should be considered as a personalization factor within CH contexts, and thus we developed a framework that delivers cognition-centered personalized CH activities. The efficiency and the efficacy of the framework have been successfully assessed through two user studies, but non-technical professionals (e.g., CH designers) may face difficulties when attempting to use it and create personalized CH activities. In this paper, we present <i>DeCACHe</i>, which supports CH designers in creating cognition-centered personalized CH activities throughout different phases of the design lifecycle. We also report a user study with seventeen professional CH designers, who used our tool to design CH activities for people with different cognitive characteristics.
topic cultural heritage
cognition
cognitive characteristics
personalization
adaptation
design support
activity design
user modeling
url https://www.mdpi.com/2571-9408/2/3/158
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