Looking at Domestic Textiles: An Eye-Tracking Experiment Analysing Influences on Viewing Behaviour at Owlpen Manor
Looking at Domestic Textiles: An Eye-Tracking Experiment Analysing Influences on Viewing Behaviour at Owlpen Manor
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10.1080/00404969.2016.1144865
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2016-01
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B. Tatler;Ross G. Macdonald;T. Hamling;Catherine Richardson
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作者：
B. Tatler;Ross G. Macdonald;T. Hamling;Catherine Richardson
装饰纺织品曾经无处不在且重要，在现代早期室内占据着重要的社会和文化空间，但它们对个人如何参与家庭空间的影响在很大程度上尚不清楚。理解它们影响的一种方法是探索当今人们在历史空间中行走时如何与它们相对于其他物体进行视觉互动。本文报道了一项此类调查，即一项眼球追踪研究，探讨了人们对格洛斯特郡猫头鹰庄园玛格丽特女王密室中的叙事绞刑的反应。使用眼球追踪设备，我们比较了两组参与者的观看行为，并在他们进入房间之前向他们提供了关键信息。我们发现观众的专业知识和所提供的信息都会影响他们的观看行为。我们的研究结果强调了在参与历史空间时向观众提供个人理解和信息的重要性，并且可以为博物馆和遗产实践提供信息，并增强我们对观众如何与历史空间中的此类纺织品互动的理解。
Decorative textiles were once ubiquitous and important, occupying a significant social and cultural space in the early modern interior, yet their impact upon how individuals engaged with domestic spaces is largely unknown. One way of approaching their impact is through an exploration of how present-day individuals engage visually with them in relation to other objects as they walk around an historic space. This article reports on one such investigation, an eye-tracking study which explored responses to the narrative hangings in Queen Margaret’s Chamber at Owlpen Manor in Gloucestershire. Using eye-tracking equipment, we compared the viewing behaviour of two groups of participants, to whom we gave key information before they entered the room. We found that both the expertise of the viewers and the information provided influenced their viewing behaviour. Our findings highlight the importance of individual understanding and information provided to viewers when engaging with historic spaces, and can inform museum and heritage practice as well as enhancing our comprehension of how viewers engage with such textiles in historic spaces.