Detail in Museum Audio Description: An Experimental Approach
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Audio description has developed into a tool for accessing heritage and, as such, into a social inclusion resource for people with visual impairment. Despite its growing presence in museums, key questions about how it provides access to knowledge are unanswered. In this paper, under the light of Grounded Cognition and Construal Level Theory, we posit that blind or partially sighted people could benefit from and enjoy descriptions with a lesser degree of concreteness referring to visual information. Bearing these hypotheses in mind, a reception study was conducted in which sixteen blind and partially sighted people took part. This first experimental approach to optimal concreteness in museum audio description unveils that access to knowledge and preference for a more or less concrete audio description could depend on whether visual impairment is congenital or acquired.
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