Actionspaces – Storytelling through Proxemic Interactions in Augmented Exhibitions
Year: 2026
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The modern museum continually transforms, reflecting broader social, political, and technological shifts. Post-colonial critiques, intangible cultural heritage, and the mass digitisation of collections underscore the need for new methods to mediate contextualised knowledge embedded within collections through narrative forms, moving beyond traditional object-centered modes of display. This work examines how augmented exhibition can enact digital storytelling through proxemic interactions in embedded hybrid spaces. Specifically, we examine how proxemics (the study of the social and cultural use of space) can inform the design of augmented exhibitions delivered through head-mounted displays. We translate structural and semantic aspects of proxemic interaction into a design framework for augmented exhibitions, leading to the concept of actionspaces.
Source: Creativity and Cognition
Institutions: Technische Universität Dresden, Paderborn University
Language: English
Subfield: Museology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7168211719