museumsandtheweb.com - exhibition

Multimedia guide, visitor interaction omnidirectional

Christina Costabile — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:29:48 +0000

MW2011

Keywords:

digitization

Keywords:

usability

Keywords:

Web 2.0

Keywords:

cross media

Keywords:

iPhone application

Keywords:

blog

Keywords:

Multimedia Tour

Keywords:

multimedia tour

Keywords:

visitor involvement

Keywords:

exhibition

Keywords:

mobile interpretation tool

Keywords:

communication with exhibits

Keywords:

state-of-the-art

Keywords:

interact with the exhibition

Abstract:

NOUS will demonstrate a state-of-the-art visitor engagement and involvement concept with a show case of real interactions from the European Parliament in Brussels/Belgium.

Mobile interpretation tools are often seen as a singular entity with no connection and communication to e.g. room installations, archives, social networks and the exhibit and exhibition room itself.

Audio- and multimedia guide concepts with their communication these days work one way only. A mobile multimedia handheld with location based technology can communicate bi- and omnidirectional with exhibits, other visitors, etc.

The visitor with a mobile handheld can now communicate with exhibits, the exhibition itself, archives and leave comments (written, voice comments), vote or even trigger actions in the exhibition hall.

NOUS invented concepts for:

"be my key", "recognize me", "give me deeper information", "tell me a story", "translate me" and "let me control"

and combined staged media with a personal handheld device in exhibitions.

Type:

Exhibitor Briefing - discuss your product. Confirmed Exhibitors only

Omnidirectional visitor interaction

Site:

http://www.nousguide.com/en/explore.html

Authors:

Christina Costabile

Prototype an Interactive Exhibit in 90 Minutes

biblio — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:34:54 +0000

Ketner, B., & Stephenson R. (2010). Prototype an Interactive Exhibit in 90 Minutes. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web 2010. Proceedings.

KuratorTool

biblio — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:34:46 +0000

Overgaard, M., & Svensson P. (2010). KuratorTool. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web 2010. Proceedings.

Bill Nye's Climate Lab

tschwarz — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 05:34:09 +0000

MW2011

Keywords:

RFID

Keywords:

activism

Keywords:

youth

Keywords:

interactive

Keywords:

exhibition

Abstract:

This demonstration features Chabot Space & Science Center’s development of Bill Nye’s Climate Lab, an integrated learning experience spanning an interactive website and physical exhibition. Designed for a target audience of youth ages 8-14, along with their families and teachers, the online experience consists of a rich 3D and video-integrated site and social media initiatives. A customized CMS allows Chabot to maintain site content and point-based awards. Rich reporting tools provide details about activity usage, completion and scoring performance, with filtering by age, geography and school affiliation.

To integrate the onsite and online experiences, Chabot invested in RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology within the physical exhibition. Using Climate Scout ID cards containing RFID tags, visitors track their progress and collect points as they complete activities in the exhibit. The Climate Scout ID allows visitors to link points earned in the exhibition to their online account, and continue to track their progress in reducing energy consumption and finding solutions to a warming planet via the activities on the website.

The project was designed to create an extended, enhanced visitor experience. The interaction between the physical exhibition, RFID technology, interactive website, social media initiatives, and the action-oriented message of the project have the potential to create stronger engagement for individuals, families, and school field trip guests. Reporting tools were integrated into the design of the RFID solution and website; over time this data will help quantify the project’s impact.

Type:

Demonstration - show your project

Demonstrations II

Site:

http://www.billsclimatelab.org

Authors:

Tamara Schwarz

MisterDarwin.eu: A web exhibition based on 2.0 interactivity

fuco — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 20:44:56 +0000

MW2011

Published Paper:

MisterDarwin.eu: A Web Exhibition Based On 2.0 Interactivity

Keywords:

Web 2.0

Keywords:

exhibit interactive

Keywords:

exhibition

Keywords:

science museum

Keywords:

evolution

Keywords:

Darwin

Abstract:

We have been trying to bring the science center's experience to the Web, at Science Museums of Coruña (Spain). After some years of trying many little things, we have no magic formula and we only know something for sure: the whole institution website is a tough place to start (and tougher in our case, considering that we are three different museums under the same brand: mc2).

So, instead of trying to bring the whole museum to the web, we thought of bringing just an exhibition. Instead of redesigning our whole website, we started creating a new microsite to complement the exhibition: "To the astonishment of Mr. Darwin".

Our approach to an exhibition website tries to go beyond the concept of "electronic brochure". Rather than translating the exhibition's brochure to a web page we tried to develop a multimedia-content viewer, with quick and simple navigation.

More than creating and intuitive multimedia experience, our main goal was taking to the Web the idea of an exhibit, which is the core of our museums' experience: an interactive element to explore, play, wake up curiosity, make questions and start to look for the answers.

So we decided to go and hunt visitors where they are wandering around in the Internet: in places like YouTube, Facebook or Twitter. The point was using social networks and Web 2.0 services to create interactive online experiences, that connect people with ideas.

These 2.0 exhibits are the core of the microsite we would like to demonstrate at this conference. The web of the exhibition"To the astonishment of Mr. Darwin" has a launch date set on February 12th, 2011, to celebrate Darwin's 202 birthday. MisterDarwin.eu is a multilingual web (English, Spanish and Galician), born to complement the physical exhibition but with its own value, to curiosity u Darwin and evolution. We hope to get people want to visit the exhibition but we also try to reach bigger audiences.

We plan to create a platform based on this microsite, to easily develop websites for our other flagship exhibitions. We are building the tools to get the museum's staff (our content developers) doing most of that work: creating and updating the online exhibits. We also want this platform to be open to other institutions' participation, in a near future. But, first of all, we would like to share our work, doubts, accomplishments, frustrations, needs... with other colleagues and learn of other different approaches of bringing the museum to the Web.

Type:

Demonstration - show your project

Demonstrations III

Site:

http://misterdarwin.eu/

Authors:

Francisco Doménech

My Ideal City

maurizio — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:05:07 +0000

MW2011

Keywords:

urban planning

Keywords:

virtual worlds

Keywords:

exhibition

Keywords:

curatorial practices

Keywords:

science museums

Abstract:

The MIC (My Ideal City) project aims to encourage a European dimension in the communication of science and technology through museums events targeting the public. More specifically, it supports the networking around the development of a coordinated exhibition in different museums that is using a “virtual worlds” dimension in order to connect urban planning choices and the awareness of citizens about them, as well as an International Conference that will bring together academics and science centres experts to discuss the relationships among urban planning, cyberspace and science events.

The virtual exhibition, focus of the demonstration, provides visitors of each science centre and on the Web with a “virtual worlds” environment that reproduces in alternative and different ways their own city. The visitors have then the opportunity to visit also the different virtual ideal cities of the other partner countries involved in the project. The new cities, the “ideal” ones, enables citizens to re-think their urban environments and the choices done in order to make them as they appear in the virtual environment. The project not only provides citizens with an exhibition able to raise socio-cultural awareness in relation to the urban choices, but also involves them in the planning of the “ideal cities”, giving another contribution to the spread of an open and transparent process of communicating among science (sustainable urban planning), technology (the “virtual” environment), institutions (science centres), and people.
The demonstration focus on detailing how the final result, the virtual exhibition, reflects the project aims, methods, and topics, with particular attention toward the role of different curatorial practices in giving shape to the different ideal cities.

We kindly ask the committee to evaluate the exhibition as it can be downloaded from the website, because it is going to be the focus of the presentation

Type:

Demonstration - show your project

Demonstrations IV

Site:

http://www.myidealcity.eu/

Authors:

Maurizio Teli

Carlo Maiolini

Exhibit Hall

dbear — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 20:56:54 +0000

Type:

Exhibit

Programs:

Acoustiguide

ADLIB

Azavea

Eduweb

Extensis

Gallery Systems

Ideum

KE Software

Mediatrope Interactive

Night Kitchen Interactive

NOUSGuide Inc.

Palantir.net Inc.

Selago Design

Toura

Vernon Systems

Bluespark Labs

Cultivate Technologies

Prisma Electronics

TourSphere

FotoWare - SCS

Synthescape

National Institute of Informatics (Japan)

SydneyPLUS/Questor

ZivTech

Stroly

MuseTrek

Bluecadet Interactive

Tristan Interactive

Eriksen Translations

Piction

ArtFinder

GuideOne

TripAdvisor

Date & Time:

April 8, 2011 - 8:30am - 5:00pm

Location:

Millennium Ballroom

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

Description

The Exhibit Hall opens with a Reception on Thursday Evening.

Exhibits and Demonstrations will take place all day on Friday and on Saturday morning.

Van Gogh's Letters. Or how to make the results of 15 years of research widely accessible for various audiences and how to involve them?

biblio — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:10:58 +0000

de Vet, M., Schreurs E., & Peereboom M. (2010). Van Gogh's Letters. Or how to make the results of 15 years of research widely accessible for various audiences and how to involve them?. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web.

Flickr as platform: Astronomy Photographer of the Year

biblio — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:10:47 +0000

Romeo, F., & Waterson N. (2010). Flickr as platform: Astronomy Photographer of the Year. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web.

Cosmic Collections: creating a big bang

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

Ridge, M. (2010). Cosmic Collections: creating a big bang. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web.