The intimacy and affective impact of the audio guide – and the spoken voice – could make it a suitable medium to represent and construct cultural memory. Research on the relevance of the audio guide in the context of cultural memory has, to the best of our knowledge, not yet been conducted. This article will address this by presenting experimental findings on the impact of two custom-made audio guides on visitors and subsequently examining these within a theoretical framework based on Alison Landsberg’s concept of prosthetic memory, as well as Gerard Genette’s writings about paratexts. In doing so, the focus is on examining the emotional distances perceived between the audio guide and the object on the one hand and the audio guide and its user on the other, as well as the balance between these two. We show that a close link between object and audio guide can either help emotionally engage the user or feel restrictive. A close connection between audio guide and user may be perceived as misleading but can also involve the user in creating prosthetic memory.

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在修复记忆中使用博物馆音频指南

语音指南和语音的亲密感和情感影响可以使其成为代表和构建文化记忆的合适媒介。据我们所知，尚未进行关于文化记忆中音频指南相关性的研究。本文将通过介绍关于两种定制音频指南对访客的影响的实验结果，然后在基于艾莉森·兰德斯伯格（Alison Landsberg）的假肢记忆概念以及杰拉德·吉内特（Gerard Genette）的关于寄生文字的著作的理论框架内研究这些发现，来解决这一问题。这样做的重点是一方面检查在音频向导和对象之间以及另一方面在音频向导和它的用户之间感知到的情感距离，以及两者之间的平衡。我们表明，对象和音频指南之间的紧密链接可以帮助情感上吸引用户或感到限制性。音频指南和用户之间的紧密联系可能会被误导，但也可能使用户参与创建假体记忆。