Co-design dialogue with museum educators revealed an unmet need for digital infrastructure, which students addressed with a bilingual cultural map extending the museum's spatial storytelling¶

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q2 i? In the bounded case, co-design dialogue with museum educators revealed the museum lacked digital infrastructure to extend spatial storytelling, and students responded by designing the Bilingual Cultural Map Interface. → Jiaojiao Zhao 2026

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Jiaojiao Zhao 2026¶

Jiaojiao Zhao, Weisheng Zhang, Jiawen Cai, Haibin Gao, and Luyao Zhang. (2026). Culturally-Aware AI for Cross-Boundary Community Learning: Undergraduate Innovation at the Intersection of Computation and Design. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.09041 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2606.09041

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Results section of a bounded case study of two undergraduates in a 7-week CBL course partnered with a regional museum. The authors report that the co-design dialogue surfaced "it lacked digital infrastructure to extend spatial storytelling into urban cultural contexts," motivating the map design.

"Co-design dialogue with Museum educators revealed an unmet need: while the Museum possessed expertise in physical exhibitions, it lacked digital infrastructure to extend spatial storytelling into urban cultural contexts"

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