Eardley, A.F., Fryer, L., Hutchinson, R., Cock, M., Ride, P. and Neves, J. 2017. Enriched Audio Description: Working towards an inclusive museum experience. in: Halder, S. and Czop Assaf, L. (ed.) Inclusion, Disability and Culture: An Ethnographic Perspective Traversing Abilities and Challenges Springer.
| Chapter title | Enriched Audio Description: Working towards an inclusive museum experience |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eardley, A.F., Fryer, L., Hutchinson, R., Cock, M., Ride, P. and Neves, J. |
| Editors | Halder, S. and Czop Assaf, L. |
| Abstract | Within a museum context, audio description (AD) is generally thought to be a tool for enhancing access for people with a visual impairment. In other words, as a means of providing access, through verbal description, to visual details of an ob-ject or art work. Taking evidence from researchers and practitioners, we argue that AD has a much broader potential scope and benefit. We consider AD in more established fields such as film, and then explore the issues impacting on AD within museum environments. We also explore the literature on multisensory learning and memory, to create a rationale for the benefits of AD based in multisensory imagery, with or without perceptual experience. We concluded that, through the use of imagery AD has the potential to guide people around a painting or object in a way which can enhance the ‘seeing’ ability of all people, whether or not they have sight. Further, multisensory experience, based in imagery or perceptual expe-rience, combined with semantic or fact information, would enhance memorabil-ity. As such, taking AD from the niche audience of visual impairment, and pro-jecting it into the mass market of the ‘sighted’, could have a revolutionary impact on the museum experience, and our understanding of access and difference. |
| Keywords | Audiovisual Translation; Multisensory; Universal Design; Visual Impairment; Cultural Heritage |
| Book title | Inclusion, Disability and Culture: An Ethnographic Perspective Traversing Abilities and Challenges |
| Year | 2017 |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Publication dates | |
| Published | May 2017 |
| ISBN | 9783319552231 |
| 9783319552248 | |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55224-8 |
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No clear evidence of a difference between individuals who self-report an absence of auditory imagery and typical imagers on auditory imagery tasks
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Inclusion for Cultural Education in Museums, Audio and Touch Interaction
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‘I felt I was right there with them’: the impact of sound-enriched audio description on experiencing and remembering artworks, for blind and sighted museum audiences
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______________________________________: Inclusive Football Commentary: Creating a Richer Experience for Audiences Who Cannot See
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Doctoral Colloquium—Treasure Hunt AR for Enhancing Visiting Experience in Cultural Sites
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Devisualizing the Museum: from Access to Inclusion
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Only minimal differences between individuals with congenital aphantasia and those with typical imagery on neuropsychological tasks that involve imagery.
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Participation in the Art Museum: Defining New Models for Public Engagement at Tate Exchange
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Quantifying Aphantasia through drawing: Those without visual imagery show deficits in object but not spatial memory
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Can academic writing retreats function as wellbeing interventions?
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Hands-on, Shoes-off: Multisensory Tools Enhance Family Engagement Within an Art Museum
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Sensory dominance and multisensory integration as screening tools in aging
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Suspended: Art in the threshold
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Related but different: Examining pseudoneglect in audition, touch and vision
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Ektashif - Art through the Senses: Families shaping museum programming in Qatar
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Allocentric spatial performance higher in early-blind and sighted adults than in retinopathy-of-prematurity adults
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Redefining Access: Embracing multimodality, memorability and shared experience in Museums
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Post awakening cortisol and melatonin secretion are not related
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Individual differences and personality correlates of navigational performance in the virtual route learning task
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Sensory imagery in individuals who are blind and sighted: examining unimodal and multimodal forms
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The digital media handbook. 2nd edition
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Do ERP components triggered during attentional orienting represent supramodal attentional control?
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Art beyond sight: multimodal approaches to learning
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Shifts of attention in the early blind: An ERP study of attentional control processes in the absence of visual spatial information
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Timeless: time, landscape and new media
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The new media handbook
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Creative discoveries in mental imagery: the role of spatial processing in individuals with and without sight
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Cognitive styles and their implications for effective presentation of information for children with visual impairment
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Imagining things you have never seen: imagery effects in individuals born totally blind
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Tide
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Imagery and people with a visual impairment
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Schizotypy and sensational interests
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