June 14th, 2021 | RESEARCH
Recent years have seen a growing interest in investigating visitor engagement in science museums with multimodal learning analytics. Visitor engagement is a multidimensional process that unfolds temporally over the course of a museum visit. In this paper, we introduce a multimodal trajectory analysis framework for modeling visitor engagement with an interactive science exhibit for environmental sustainability. We investigate trajectories of multimodal data captured during visitor interactions with the exhibit through slope-based time series analysis. Utilizing the slopes of the time series representations for each multimodal data channel, we conduct an ablation study to investigate how additional modalities lead to improved accuracy while modeling visitor engagement. We are able to enhance visitor engagement models by accounting for varying levels of visitors’ science fascination, a construct integrating science interest, curiosity, and mastery goals. The results suggest that trajectory-based representations of the multimodal visitor data can serve as the foundation for visitor engagement modeling to enhance museum learning experiences.
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Team Members
Andrew Emerson, Author, North Carolina State UniversityNathan Henderson, Author, North Carolina State University
Wookhee Min, Author, North Carolina State University
Jonathan Rowe, Co-Principal Investigator, North Carolina State University
James Minogue, Co-Principal Investigator, North Carolina State University
James Lester, Principal Investigator, North Carolina State University
Citation
Identifier Type: DOI
Identifier: 10.1007/978-3-030-78270-2_27
Publication: Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education
Page(s): 151-155
Funders
Funding Source: NSF
Funding Program: Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL)
Award Number: 1713545
Funding Amount: $1,951,956.00
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Audience: Learning Researchers | Museum | ISE Professionals
Discipline: Climate | Ecology | forestry | agriculture
Resource Type: Conference Proceedings | Research
Environment Type: Games | Simulations | Interactives | Media and Technology | Museum and Science Center Exhibits