Evaluation of virtual tour in an online museum: Exhibition of Architecture of the Forbidden City.
Online virtual museum tours combine museum authority and an academic approach with the diversity and interactivity of online resources; such tours have become an essential resource for online scientific research and education. Many important museums around the world are developing this type of onlin...
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| description | Online virtual museum tours combine museum authority and an academic approach with the diversity and interactivity of online resources; such tours have become an essential resource for online scientific research and education. Many important museums around the world are developing this type of online service. Comprehensive evaluation of such tours is, however, urgently needed to ensure effectiveness. This paper establishes a heuristic evaluation scale based on the literature. Taking the online virtual tour of the Exhibition of Architecture of the Forbidden City as a case study, confirmatory factor analysis was then carried out to improve the scale. Interviews were conducted to discuss and analyze the research results. The developed evaluation scale has four dimensions: authenticity, interaction, navigation, and learning. The results from the case study showed, first, that the exhibition had visual authenticity, but the behavioral authenticity was insufficient; second, the exhibition was generally interactive, but this aspect could be improved by enriching the links; third, the lack of effective navigation design for the exhibit was the main factor affecting experience quality. Fourth, the exhibition was informative and supported learning, but needs further improvement to the quantity and quality of information provided. Finally, the interviews revealed that the online exhibition did not entirely support people of different ages and abilities, so it needs further improvement to be wholly inclusive. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-de7db39935ff4483b11e2a3beabe661d2025-08-20T02:02:12ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032022-01-01171e026160710.1371/journal.pone.0261607Evaluation of virtual tour in an online museum: Exhibition of Architecture of the Forbidden City.Jia LiJin-Wei NieJing YeOnline virtual museum tours combine museum authority and an academic approach with the diversity and interactivity of online resources; such tours have become an essential resource for online scientific research and education. Many important museums around the world are developing this type of online service. Comprehensive evaluation of such tours is, however, urgently needed to ensure effectiveness. This paper establishes a heuristic evaluation scale based on the literature. Taking the online virtual tour of the Exhibition of Architecture of the Forbidden City as a case study, confirmatory factor analysis was then carried out to improve the scale. Interviews were conducted to discuss and analyze the research results. The developed evaluation scale has four dimensions: authenticity, interaction, navigation, and learning. The results from the case study showed, first, that the exhibition had visual authenticity, but the behavioral authenticity was insufficient; second, the exhibition was generally interactive, but this aspect could be improved by enriching the links; third, the lack of effective navigation design for the exhibit was the main factor affecting experience quality. Fourth, the exhibition was informative and supported learning, but needs further improvement to the quantity and quality of information provided. Finally, the interviews revealed that the online exhibition did not entirely support people of different ages and abilities, so it needs further improvement to be wholly inclusive.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0261607&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Jia Li Jin-Wei Nie Jing Ye Evaluation of virtual tour in an online museum: Exhibition of Architecture of the Forbidden City. PLoS ONE |
| title | Evaluation of virtual tour in an online museum: Exhibition of Architecture of the Forbidden City. |
| title_full | Evaluation of virtual tour in an online museum: Exhibition of Architecture of the Forbidden City. |
| title_fullStr | Evaluation of virtual tour in an online museum: Exhibition of Architecture of the Forbidden City. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Evaluation of virtual tour in an online museum: Exhibition of Architecture of the Forbidden City. |
| title_short | Evaluation of virtual tour in an online museum: Exhibition of Architecture of the Forbidden City. |
| title_sort | evaluation of virtual tour in an online museum exhibition of architecture of the forbidden city |
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