ARtExplorer
December 2023
︎ An innovative augmented reality (AR) based mobile app aimed at improving teenagers' art museum learning experiences.
︎Video Tutorial
︎ User Experience Design
︎ Group Project
︎ Augmented Reality (AR)
︎ Mobile learning
︎UIUX Design: Yuling Zhou, Yuchen Qu
︎Usability Test: Sadia Ahmed, Stacy Chen
︎Persona: Qinyi Wang
︎Usability Test: Sadia Ahmed, Stacy Chen
︎Persona: Qinyi Wang
Museum:
Augmented Reality (AR) use in Informal Learning Environment
Museums have a history of serving as informal learning environments for people of all ages. The primary incentive for museum visits is to acquire knowledge and fresh insights (Packer & Ballantyne, 2002). However, teenagers face various obstacles in engaging with museum exhibits, such as low accessibility and outdated content. Practical learning tools are indispensable for teenagers to engage more effectively in museum visits.
Our team is dedicated to designing an augmented reality (AR) application that immerses teenagers in art museums and reinforces their understanding of art history.
Our team is dedicated to designing an augmented reality (AR) application that immerses teenagers in art museums and reinforces their understanding of art history.
Why did we make this product?
79% of Teenage Museum Visitors face these problems.
Museum learning experiences can be more interactive.
Always feel disconnected, lost, and frustrated in big museums.
Cannot find the way to the artwork they’re interested in.
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Want to share their thoughts on social platforms.
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Our team distributed work and had weekly meetings. Based on our interview, I created a user story map and ideations.
User story map and ideations.
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Target Audience: Teenagers 13 - 19
Persona
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Design Goal
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Use innovative AR technology to create an engaging art museum learning experience for teenagers, and help
teenagers to have better museum visit experience by tools like museum guide and virtual AR map.
Testing Feedback
We tested the app on six teenage users, and got some valuable advices. We modified the design according to the Usability Test.
“The scan function is helpful. But I think it can be bigger since it’s hard for us to find it now.”
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“ I believe that seeing comments from friends could be an incentive for me to scan the art piece.”
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Accordingly, we integrated a comment feature within the scanning function to allow users to view their friends' remarks on artworks directly.
I’m interested in creating shareable social media images or videos like Tik Tok and Instagram.
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“As a museum visitor, I don’t want to attract attention for automatic video play similar to TikTok.”
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Art Explorer has Five main features
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Home, Search, Scan, Community, and My Account
99% of our users love virtual agent feature
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Our app features innovative virtual guides styled after artists like Van Gogh and Monet, who help users navigate and discover artworks, enhancing the museum learning experience for teenagers.
