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Beyond Cool: Making Mobile Augmented Reality Work for Museum Education

smannion — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:43:30 +0000

MW2012

Shelley Mannion, Samsung Digital Discovery Centre at The British Museum, United Kingdom

http://www.britishmuseum.org/samsungcentre

Abstract

In fall 2010, the British Museum’s education team embarked on a multi-year plan to explore the potential of Augmented Reality (AR) in our galleries. We have since run four AR projects for young people, each of which focused on a different aspect of the technology. Our first project focused on revealing content on markers; the second on creating alternative views on the collection; the third on location-based AR for navigation; and the fourth on exhibiting virtual art in the galleries. These projects have both challenged and surprised us. Technical problems like the instability of compasses for positioning and poor 3G reception have challenged us to find workable solutions. Working with different age groups in formal and informal education settings led to discoveries about AR’s ability to delight and engage young learners and to teach fine motor skills. Shoestring budgets forced us to be creative and resourceful in our approach to mobile app development. Here, we share our experiences and lessons learned in integrating AR into museum and gallery learning programs.

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Beyond Cool: Making Mobile Augmented Reality Work for Museum Education

Can Moderate-priced Technology Extend the Museum Experience Successfully?

hosankim — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 19:13:43 +0000

MW2012

Hosan Kim, Ph.D., Dongsoong Art Center, with Ockrang Kim, Hyangbin Kim, and Jaejeong Kim, Kokdu Museum, Rep. of Korea

Abstract

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Can moderate-priced technology extend the museum experience successfully?

Augmented Reality—What Reality Can We Learn From It?

cherry_thian — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 21:22:20 +0000

MW2012

Cherry Thian, Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore

www.acm.org.sg

Abstract

In June 2011, the Asian Civilisations Museum launched an integrated iPhone app—the world’s first museum app to combine augmented reality (AR), location-based gaming, and interactive features—in its special exhibition Terracotta Warriors: The First Emperor and His Legacy. Specially designed to tell a story that complements the content and flow of the exhibition in seven interactive chapters, each chapter highlights at least one object in the exhibition and attempts to engage visitors on a more personal level. As the story progresses, visitors respond to image markers that launch augmented reality and gaming experiences that breathe life into the objects.

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Augmented Reality – What reality can we learn from it?

Quick and dirty AR for mobile devices: A workshop

smannion — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 07:36:28 +0000

MW2012

Keywords:

augmented reality

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mobile

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android

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iphone

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application

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device

Abstract:

The British Museum, Exploratorium and several other cultural institutions have built AR applications on Juanio, a free, cross-platform Augmented Reality browser. Juanio has an open API for developers which makes the creation of new apps (or “channels”) a quick and simple process for any competent programmer. By April 2012, Junaio will have released a WYSIWIG Content Creator to make this process even easier. The goal of this mini-workshop is to demonstrate how easily an Augmented Reality application can be built and to build a working app by the end of the hour that can be viewed throughout the conference.

Jointly-led between museum staff who have implemented Junaio channels and developers from Metaio, which produces Junaio, the session is intended for technical staff, programmers or project managers who want to quickly get up to speed with AR. It will be of particular benefit for small museums which have limited resources to devote to cutting edge technologies like AR, but want to understand how to put together a compelling, working app on a shoestring budget.

The AR app produced in the workshop can demonstrate some of the newest and most interesting features of Junaio including 2D image recognition and 3D tracking. It will include pre-prepared rich media content and content that participants download from their institution’s own website. It will be accessible through the Junaio browser, which can be downloaded free from the Apple AppMarket and Andriod Store. It will run on any smartphone or tablet with Juanio installed. If it is a location-based channel, virtual content can be viewed by anyone (not just workshop participants) in and around the MW conference venue for the duration of the event.

To be clear, the workshop is not intended to promote use of Juanio to the exclusion of other tools, but to show the steps in creating any successful AR application and how museum content should be designed and produced for mobile AR. Wherever possible alternative tools and techniques will be mentioned and parallels drawn between what is being shown in Junaio and how to accomplish the same task on other platforms. The format of the mini-workshop is based on a successful model developed at The British Museum in which children age 9-15 produced Junaio AR channels in less than a day.

Type:

Workshop - full or half day

Quick and dirty AR for mobile devices

Authors:

Shelley Mannion

Grounding Digital Information Trends

dbear — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 22:11:01 +0000

MW2011

Keywords:

mobiles

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social media

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internet applications - statistics

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usage data

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technology impact

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museum impact

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research

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augmented reality

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Pew Internet and American Life

Abstract:

The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project provides data on the rise of mobile internet, the increasing popularity of handheld devices such as cell phones, tablet computers and e-readers, the emergence of social media, and the move towards augmented realities that can help us identify how those trends are shaping the way content-oriented organizations like museums interact with their audiences now and will need to interact in the future. Because these technologies, and others, are revolutionizing how audiences consume information, and are reshaping the public’s expectations about information access and immersion, concrete knowledge of their penetration and the speed at which they are being adopted is crucial to shaping responsible institutional responses.

Type:

Paper - in formal session

Opening Plenary

Site:

http://pewinternet.org

Authors:

Kristen Purcell

Tour and briefing on new media at the Franklin Institute Museum

dbear — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 22:56:07 +0000

MW2011

Keywords:

augmented reality

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interactive exhibits

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walk-through heart

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new media initiatives

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Franklin Institute

Abstract:

During your visit to The Franklin Institute, you'll meet with exhibit developers and see the latest media installations in the museum. A highlight will be in the Electricity gallery where devices have been enhanced with augmented reality technology as part of a research project that seeks to understand its potential for integrating the experiential and interpretive aspects of hands-on science learning. Using fixed-position augmented reality, visitors interact with the device and with digital content simultaneously. Finally, a walk through the classic Giant Heart is an old media experience – but it's a rite of passage for every Philadelphian and for every visitor to the city of brotherly love.

Type:

Other Interaction - describe in notes

Tour 1: Science Museum New Media

Site:

http://www.fi.edu

Authors:

Karen Elinich

Augmented Reality

dbear — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:26:43 +0000

Type:

Session

Chair:

Bruce Wyman

Programs:

Augmented Reality and the Museum Experience

Mixing Realities to Connect People, Places, and Exhibits Using Mobile Augmented-Reality Applications

Science LinX: the neXt level in augmenting science center Xperiences

Date & Time:

April 7, 2011 - 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Location:

Congress

augmented reality

dimensions of experience

enhanced reality

overlays

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Archives & Museum Informatics EIN: 77-0708617; GST / BN 887978914

Description

Reality is ... well, just too three-dimensional. Can't we do better? Maybe 4, 5, or 6 dimensions.

Where is the time dimension? The dimension of design on top of every actualization? The dimension of context for every artifact? Now we've got the means to let visitors see all these at once – what are we doing with it?

Opening Plenary

dbear — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:17:33 +0000

Type:

Session

Theme:

plenary

Chair:

jennifer trant

Programs:

Grounding Digital Information Trends

Date & Time:

April 7, 2011 - 9:00am - 10:30am

Location:

Commonwealth A/B/C/D

mobile

plenary

research

augmented reality

games

internet

technology

pew

uptake

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Archives & Museum Informatics EIN: 77-0708617; GST / BN 887978914

Description

We'll kick off MW2011 together with a plenary speaker highlighting current questions.

We're delighted to welcome Kristin Purcell of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.

Augmented Reality and Storytelling - FULL

dbear — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:49:55 +0000

Type:

Workshop

Programs:

Augmented Storytelling: How to Create Interesting AR Tours in the Urban Realm

Tech Level:

No prior knowledge; willingness to work hands on; Bring your laptop / Android / iPhone

Date & Time:

April 6, 2011 - 9:00am - 12:30pm

Location:

Washington A

workshop

morning

wednesday

augmented reality

morning workshop

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Archives & Museum Informatics EIN: 77-0708617; GST / BN 887978914

Description

This workshop is now full.

Mixing Realities to Connect People, Places, and Exhibits Using Mobile Augmented-Reality Applications

rrothfarb — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 01:40:09 +0000

MW2011

Published Paper:

Mixing Realities to Connect People, Places, and Exhibits Using Mobile Augmented-Reality Applications

Keywords:

mobile devices

Keywords:

augmented reality

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mixed reality

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social applications

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geotagging

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3D authoring

Abstract:

With mobile augmented-reality technologies and applications, museums can extend their relationship with visitors beyond physical boundaries to engage them further in discovery-based learning.

Using freely available mobile augmented-reality (AR) authoring platforms and publishing tools, the Exploratorium is experimenting with extensions to both its physical and web exhibit spaces to allow visitors to interact with exhibits and natural phenomenon around the San Francisco Bay Area. Applications developed with two platforms, Layar and Junaio, allow mobile users with AR-capable smart phones (equipped with a camera and GPS) to explore their surroundings through live camera views of these devices and to interact with overlaid multilayered, geo-referenced information. Interactive content “layers” let visitors with compatible devices, including iPhone and Android smartphones, see annotated information about physical exhibits and locations in outdoor spaces, leave “markers,”of their visit experience in places where others can see them, and explore temporal data about objects and locations. While it’s possible to get started right away developing content and user-experiences with mobile AR, advances in mobile image processing, tagging technologies, and wearable computing – combined with the convergence of distributed networks and location-aware applications – will help define more intimate modes of human-computer interaction that museum exhibit and experience developers can further explore.

This paper discusses content creation for mobile AR experience design using these two platforms, strategies for incorporating preparation of mobile AR-ready information into a digital content creation workflow, and measuring impact via mobile analytics. It covers key processes including geotagging different types of assets (images, videos, audio, and 3-D objects) and methods of interfacing the AR authoring platforms with content in external systems including event calendars, media portal/content management systems, and social-sharing sites such as YouTube, and Flickr.

Type:

Paper - in formal session

Augmented Reality

Authors:

Rob Rothfarb

Augmented Storytelling: How to Create Interesting AR Tours in the Urban Realm

mschavemaker — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:27:25 +0000

MW2011

Keywords:

augmented reality

Keywords:

mobile tours

Keywords:

Storytelling in urban Realm

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layar

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smartphone

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ARtours

Abstract:

The newest AR technology on your smartphone (for example: Layar) makes it possible to take your museum collection out of the digital database and reposition it on all possible locations in the urban realm. The dialogue between the virtual artifact and the real place poses new demands on our storytelling: what kind of experiences do the small screens of the deployed mobile phones offer us? What is the surplus value of this combination of the real and the virtual? What new ‘layered’ stories can we share by means of this new technique?

In this workshop we will kick off with a short introduction and presentation of several best practices. After that the participants will work on the stories of the virtual objects that they have brought with them from their own collection. The workshop ends with the entering of these stories and objects into ARtours (the Layar based CMS of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Fabrique). The results will be immediately visible outside. So for everybody with a smartphone with GPS and downloaded Layar app: please join us afterwards on the streets of Philadelphia and share our augmented stories!

This workshop is now full.

Type:

Workshop - full or half day

Augmented Reality and Storytelling - FULL

Authors:

margriet schavemaker

Paul Stork

Hein Wils

Ebelien Pondaag

Augmented Reality and the Museum Experience

mschavemaker — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:19:21 +0000

MW2011

Published Paper:

Augmented Reality and the Museum Experience

Keywords:

augmented reality

Keywords:

user experience

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mobile technology

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Storytelling in urban Realm

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Future of Curating

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contemporary art

Abstract:

In 2009 Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam started the project ARtours. This project investigates and produces augmented reality tours around the collection of the Stedelijk and modern art in general. The project aims at both indoor and outdoor applications:

Indoor as a replacement or addition to the classic audio tour.
Outdoor as a new experience and new interactions with modern art

In both instances not only the current collection is used but also new developed art forms and new narratives will be incorporated in the project.

The paper will describe the project in all its aspects. Ranging from AR technologies and AR mobile browsers to storytelling and enhancing the user experience inside and outside the museum. The two year project is halfway. Several pilots and its conclusions from this first period will be described. One of the pilots is ‘Ik op het museumplein’ (myself on the museum square). Virtual three dimensional art is presented on specific locations and accessible through the augmented reality browser Layar. Outside on the museum square in Amsterdam people with an Iphone or Adroid smart phone with Layar can walk around and engage with virtual art (virtual 3D objects and sound). Another pilot is a virtual art library. Again with the use of Layar users can borrow art objects from the museum and place these objects in the space around them. This pilot was conducted during the Lowlands music festival in the summer. A third pilot is the design tour. In an walk through the city of Amsterdam users can experience (interior, product, graphic) design in it’s context. Users can walk from one virtual object to another and learn more about the object and the place it is linked to.

The project focuses on a wide range of aspects such as technical, user experience, creation and management of information, indoor and outdoor, young and older audiences.

Type:

Paper - in formal session

Augmented Reality

Authors:

margriet schavemaker

Paul Stork

Hein Wils

Ebelien Pondaag

Implementing Mobile Augmented Reality Applications for Cultural Institutions

DBoyer — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:27:43 +0000

MW2011

Published Paper:

Implementing Mobile Augmented Reality Applications for Cultural Institutions

Keywords:

augmented reality

Keywords:

mobile technology

Keywords:

public engagement

Keywords:

historic photographs

Keywords:

location-based apps

Abstract:

Mobile applications have increasingly become a regular part of the outreach and engagement strategies of many cultural institutions. As smart phone use grows, some organizations have sought to go beyond typical mobile applications and integrate location-based and augmented reality technology as a way to further access to collections, create new methods for understanding and interpreting the items, and increase communication between the organizations and the communities they serve.

In Spring 2010, the City of Philadelphia Department of Records received an NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up grant to investigate mobile augmented reality technology for use in displaying overlays of historic photographs on the current urban landscape. Users simply point the cameras on their smart phones at a location of interest and the historic photographs and selected data related to the site are automatically accessed right through the camera display. The project utilized the resources of PhillyHistory.org, a collaborative online database of historic photographs and maps from five Philadelphia area institutions, and the PhillyHistory.org smart phone web application, a location-based web app that provides access to the collections via iPhone and Android smart phones.

As a growing number of museums and humanities institutions from Philadelphia to London to Sydney are turning their attention to new technologies like augmented reality to revitalize interest in their collections, this paper will examine the state of mobile augmented reality technology and its current and possible applications for use within cultural institutions. Through an exploration and evaluation of the successes and challenges of the Department of Records’ augmented reality project, we will investigate how this technology can be applied to other archives and museums and whether such efforts have proven valuable as an engagement and outreach tool.

Type:

Paper - in formal session

Mobile Parade

Site:

http://www.phillyhistory.org/

Authors:

Deborah Boyer

Josh Marcus

Conveying Culture Heritage and Legacy with Innovative AR-based Solutions

biblio — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:10:45 +0000

Bogen, M., & Krauss M. (2010). Conveying Culture Heritage and Legacy with Innovative AR-based Solutions. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web.

Connecting the Collection: From Physical Archives to Augmented Reality in the Netherlands Architecture Institute

biblio — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:10:44 +0000

Lemmens, P., & Vanstappen H. (2010). Connecting the Collection: From Physical Archives to Augmented Reality in the Netherlands Architecture Institute. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web.

Interactive Audio Content: An Approach to Audio Content for a Dynamic Museum Experience ...

jtrant — Wed, 02 May 2007 00:58:58 +0000

Hatala, M., Newby K., Wakkary R., Evernden D., & Droumeva M. (2004). Interactive Audio Content: An Approach to Audio Content for a Dynamic Museum Experience .... (David Bearman, Trant, Jennifer, Ed.).Museums and the Web 2004: Proceedings.