Intense experience and immersion experience: Direct observation report

Abstract

The ways used to provoke the immersion of visitors in museums, whether physical or virtual, have been the subject of several publications over the last fifteen years. Through these forms, we tried to provoke a more involving experience than those raised by previous museographies, called first or second generation. The object of this article is not concerned with these forms, but with the visitor's experience. Considering the limits of this text, I will pay little attention to the works already published on the subject. What differentiates my research from the previous ones - and what justifies the present article - is the fact that my data were collected on the intensity of the visitation experience, while the other studies were based on memories, that is, on what is evoked by memory. of that experience.