This thesis explores the role of interactivity in interfaces for visual artwork display, and the promotion of user engagement. In contrast to most previous work, which has been based on digitally recreating the physical properties of traditional exhibition spaces, this research explores the advantages that interactive digital displays offer to user engagement by investigating different methods and techniques for presenting images of visual artworks in a virtual environment. Throughout this research, various interactive virtual presentation designs, including four interactivity modes, have been developed and tested in lab, field and online studies; data gathering and analysis have used both qualitative and quantitative methods. Further, event parameters have been introduced, the aid of which has allowed the separate phases of user engagement to be examined. The experiments on a broader scale in the final stage of this research are targeted towards demonstrating the potential of the proposed approach and will foster the application of advanced technologies for presentation of visual artworks. This thesis makes a number of contributions in the fields of digital art presentation and methods for measuring user engagement and its different phases. The conceptual framework for describing user engagement is generalised and ex- tended by additional elements. The relation between four designed interactivity modes and the extended phases of user engagement has been investigated, analysed and examined through the application of a mixed-methods approach that combines qualitative and quantitative techniques. Finally, the findings from this thesis about the design interactivity modes and evaluation of user engagement can be adopted by and applied in further research.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:766191 |
| Date | January 2018 |
| Creators | Maleshkova, Jeni |
| Publisher | Queen Mary, University of London |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Source | http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/43183 |
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