Modes of Engagement: Comparing 'real' and 'virtual' platforms for Holocaust learning

参与模式：比较大屠杀学习的“真实”和“虚拟”平台

• 批准号: AH/V012622/1
• 负责人: Maiken Umbach
• 金额: $ 9.57万
• 依托单位: University of Nottingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FV012622%2F1
• 关键词: Modes; Engagement; Comparing; real; virtual

This project examines user engagement with an interactive, virtual exhibition that explores the role of photography in mediating the public understanding of the Holocaust. It builds on the success of the AHRC funded project 'Photography as Political Practice in National Socialism' (2018-21), which has explored the extent to which public understanding of the Holocaust is currently compromised by a one-sided reliance on perpetrator-made images. This follow-on funding allows us to ascertain whether a digital intervention can help audiences to view photographs of the Holocaust more critically. Our team and staff at the National Holocaust Centre and Museum (NHCM) have collaborated to create a virtual online version of our national touring exhibition 'The Eye as Witness: Recording the Holocaust', to pioneer methods for translating the project's insights into a digital forum, both extending the reach of our intervention and offering new modes for engaging learners with the importance of photographs in understanding histories of atrocity. In addition to reproducing the core elements of the physical exhibition, the online version supplements them with specially designed virtual pedagogical spaces: an antechamber and a reflection room which users engage with at the beginning and end of the exhibition. These expand on the exhibition's content to engage the user more fully with the role of historical photographs, and to sharpen the pedagogical function in the absence a member of the NHCM's educational team. This project comprises working closely with various groups to assess the impact of the virtual exhibition: schools will provide the primary partners for testing the program, and we will also work closely with charities who engage with community groups. This will take place both in the UK and in collaboration with our international partners in the United States and Germany. Our project is ground-breaking in combining established qualitative methods of museum audience research (questionnaires and interviews) with innovations from digital humanities approaches, including gaze and movement tracking in the virtual exhibition, digitally recording choices visitors make about photographs on interactive screens, and inviting participants to respond textually to questions posed in the virtual exhibition. The resulting evidence will demonstrate the effects of our interventions on different demographics, empowering museums to make optimal use of our research for future developments in digital curatorial and educational strategy to engage target audiences effectively and ethically with photographic depictions of atrocity and victims of persecution. They will also support teachers and educators to improve the visual literacy of a new generation.This grant would enable us to:- Design visitor questionnaires and interview questions collaboratively with our museum and international partners, whilst drawing on existing scholarship and practice as outlined in 'Context'- Develop additional resources to support teachers in framing the classroom discussion around the virtual exhibition- Organise international trials of the virtual exhibition in the United Kingdom, United States and Germany, coordinating the user questionnaires, interviews and focus groups with teachers both online and in person- Analyse the outcomes of the above, in conjunction with the data gathered electronically from the virtual exhibition and the interactive activities, to arrive at a holistic assessment that addresses all questions outlined in the 'Objectives'- Share the outcomes with all participating partners in team meetings and use them to develop concrete recommendations for the future, including, but not confined to, the introduction of interactive and immersive technologies to museums where they have not yet been used- Work with museum educators and teachers to develop new approaches and pedagogies to enhance the use of digital tools in educational settings

这个项目通过一个互动的虚拟展览来考察用户的参与，该展览探讨了摄影在调解公众对大屠杀的理解方面的作用。它建立在AHRC资助的项目“摄影作为国家社会主义的政治实践”（2018-21）的成功基础上，该项目探讨了公众对大屠杀的理解目前在多大程度上受到了片面依赖制造图像的影响。这一后续资金使我们能够确定数字干预是否可以帮助观众更批判性地观看大屠杀的照片。我们的团队和国家大屠杀中心和博物馆（NHCM）的工作人员合作创建了我们的全国巡回展览“眼睛作为证人：记录大屠杀”的虚拟在线版本，开创了将项目见解转化为数字论坛的方法，既扩大了我们干预的范围，又为学习者提供了新的模式，使他们了解照片在理解暴行历史方面的重要性。除了再现实体展览的核心元素外，在线版本还为其提供了专门设计的虚拟教学空间：一个前厅和一个反思室，用户可以在展览开始和结束时参与其中。这些扩大了展览的内容，使用户更充分地参与历史照片的作用，并在没有NHCM教育团队成员的情况下加强教学功能。该项目包括与各种团体密切合作，以评估虚拟展览的影响：学校将提供测试该计划的主要合作伙伴，我们还将与社区团体的慈善机构密切合作。这将在英国进行，并与我们在美国和德国的国际伙伴合作。我们的项目是开创性的结合既定的定性方法博物馆观众的研究（问卷调查和访谈）与创新的数字人文方法，包括在虚拟展览中的目光和运动跟踪，数字记录游客的选择互动屏幕上的照片，并邀请参与者回答文字提出的问题在虚拟展览。由此产生的证据将展示我们的干预对不同人口统计数据的影响，使博物馆能够最佳利用我们的研究，用于数字策展和教育战略的未来发展，以有效和道德的方式吸引目标受众，通过摄影来展示暴行和迫害受害者。他们也将支持教师和教育工作者提高新一代的视觉素养。这笔赠款将使我们能够：- 与我们的博物馆和国际合作伙伴合作设计参观者问卷和访谈问题，同时借鉴“背景”中概述的现有奖学金和实践-开发额外的资源，以支持教师围绕虚拟展览进行课堂讨论-在英国，美国和德国组织虚拟展览的国际试验，协调用户问卷，与教师进行在线和面对面的访谈和焦点小组-结合从虚拟展览和互动活动中收集的电子数据，分析上述结果，达成一个全面的评估，解决“目标”中列出的所有问题-在团队会议上与所有参与伙伴分享结果，并利用它们为未来制定具体建议，包括但不限于，将互动和沉浸式技术引入尚未使用的博物馆-与博物馆教育工作者和教师合作，开发新的方法和方法，以加强数字化工具在教育环境中的使用

项目成果

Visitor Experience at Holocaust Memorials and Museums

大屠杀纪念馆和博物馆的游客体验

• DOI: 10.4324/9781003220626-12
• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Popescu D