Abstract
Dancing through Time is an interactive installation created to discover the Prix de Lausanne archive, a collection of dance performance recordings over fifty-one years. It consists in a 4k-touch screen mounted on a twelve meter rail, offering visitors the opportunity to walk through the fifty-one editions of the Prix de Lausanne dance competition. This paper presents the installation and the results of an extensive evaluation on users’ questionnaires. Our main findings validate Dancing through Time in terms of User Experience and User Engagement, indicating that receiving prior instructions only affects the latter. Furthermore, the interaction logs with the application inform us on the benefits on browsing through the entire collection, increasing watch time and distance travelled through time. Finally, we extracted different users’ interaction behaviors to better understand how visitors engaged with Dancing through Time in the situated context of the 2024 edition.
For detailed information on the installation and the result of our pilot study, please refer to our publication on Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3708548