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My Gallery Interactive: Engaging Museum Audiences with Technology

Vivian Kung Haga — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:01:51 +0000

MW2012

Keywords:

multi-touch

Keywords:

gallery interactive

Keywords:

interactive

Keywords:

open exhibits

Keywords:

touch table

Keywords:

international collaboration

Abstract:

New technologies are allowing museums to engage visitors through innovative and interactive exhibitions. As part of this movement to enhance the visitor experience, the goal of My Gallery Interactive is to create a crowd-sourced experience using a novel multi-touch table interface that allows users to participate in the curatorial process in a fun and interactive way. This project was a unique collaboration between the Pacific Rim Undergraduate Experiences (PRIME) program at UCSD, the Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA) in San Diego, and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in Tokyo and Kyoto.

The My Gallery Interactive is a fully functional touch table interface that harnesses the expertise of undergraduate PRIME students to complete the work and presents a new, exciting model for collaboration between museums and academic institutions interested in merging art and technology. The interface was based on the Open Exhibits multi-touch framework (Ideum, Corrales, NM) using ActionScript and Adobe Flash. This open source framework facilitated the construction of the interface and allowed for more creativity with the user interface.

The functionality of the My Gallery Interactive interface features three interactive screens. The main screen displays 50 images hand selected from MOPA’s photography collection. Users can move images to the center workspace to enlarge or reduce them and to select images to create a user’s mini gallery. They can select up to 10 photographs to add to their own personal collection. A second screen enables the user to title their gallery in English or Japanese and subsequently save it. Finally, the third screen allows the user to view past collections that had been saved by other users. Collections can be sent to and shown on an external Tile Display Wall, allowing a larger audience to view and engage with My Gallery Interactive.

My Gallery Interactive was developed as a prototype for a crowd-sourcing project that will premiere at the Museum of Photographic Arts in 2012. Visitors to MOPA’s galleries during the summer of 2012 will be able to interact with an extended version of the My Gallery Interactive and will have an opportunity to rate the photographs in the Museum’s collection on the touch table. A similar interaction will also be available on MOPA’s website for online users. Together, the data from both the touch table and website will be transformed into a visitor-curated exhibition that will be installed in the Fall of 2012.

Participants to the Museums and the Web conference will be able to experience the My Gallery Interactive interface first hand in this demonstration. PRIME students, NICT and MOPA project managers will be available to answer any questions about the development, implementation, and collaboration process.

Type:

Demonstration - show your project

MW2012 Demonstrations II

Site:

http://www.mopa.org/blog/14-09-11/mopa-japan-my-gallery-%E5%AF%BE%E8%A9%B1%E5%9E...

Authors:

Vivian Kung Haga

Joaquin Ortiz

Amber Lucero

Wesley Hsu

Lance Castillo

Jason Haga

Masaki Chikama

Tomoaki Takata

Yoshinori Kobayashi

Shinji Shimojo

OpenExhibits Tools Bootcamp

dbear — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:01:29 +0000

Type:

Workshop

Programs:

Open Exhibits Tools: a Bootcamp

Tech Level:

Developers: we'll do some Actionscript programming

Date & Time:

April 6, 2011 - 1:30pm - 5:00pm

Location:

Washington C

wednesday

afternoon

multi-touch

afternoon workshop

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

Description

Open Exhibits (www.openexhibits.org) is a National Science Foundation-funded initiative to develop a library of free and open multitouch-enabled software modules for exhibit development. Built using the popular Adobe Flash and Flex authoring tools, museum professionals can create multitouch and multiuser exhibits more easily. In this half-day workshop, you'll learn how to get started

Taking the Museum to the Streets

Jakob Ingemann Parby — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:49:14 +0000

MW2011

Published Paper:

Taking the Museum to the Streets

Keywords:

User-involvement

Keywords:

urban identity

Keywords:

multi-touch

Keywords:

cultural heritage

Keywords:

democracy

Keywords:

dialogue

Keywords:

interactive

Abstract:

In a digitalised and globalised world, what are the challenges the museum faces when users increasingly experience knowledge as something created through blogs, wikis and other social platforms? In which the museum collections no longer hold the absolute truth, but rather layers of collected knowledge to be interpreted and augmented through interpretation and adaptation by guests and other voices? This workshop will look at some of the practical, epistemological and technical approaches to the challenges based on specific case material.

In April 2010 the Museum of Copenhagen, in cooperation with Gibson Group Ltd and Spild af Tid/Waste of Time, launched a giant multi-touch multimedia installation in one of the central squares in Copenhagen. In the first half year of its 14 hour a day functioning, The WALL, as it is called, has attracted more than 400,000 users, who have viewed more than 2,000,000 images, sent more than 60,000 personal postcards, and maybe most importantly, uploaded 2,500 new contributions of their own. Semi-mobile, The WALL will be moved around Copenhagen over the coming four years. It gives Copenhageners street access to a poetic cityscape of images and knowledge about their city, and offers a platform for all citizens and guests of the city to interact with and discuss the past, present and future of the city. In parallel to the multi-touch installation experienced in the streets, a website connects The WALL, its multimedia database and the museum. Both the website and The WALL support the museum's new profile of having the city as its prime object and being fully embedded in the city.

See a 5 minute documentary on the project: http://tinyurl.com/24h65ya

The workshop will allow participants to get inside the project and discuss the challenges and lessons of this pioneering work, while exploring hands-on the unique user interface on a cut-down version of The WALL – including a year’s worth of user contributions.

In this way the workshop will investigate:

practical and technical challenges concerning the development of a mobile, multi-touch, user-involving installation, outdoors in the city space
hands-on use of the “2D/3D cityscape editor” software that creates the cultural topographies of The WALL
the conceptual and epistemological considerations and choices underlying these topographies
achievements and lessons from the first year of operation – how do reception, use and interaction correspond with the original intentions we had in the development phase, what are the differences and how can they be explained? Are there things we would have done differently?
Does the Wall create a new agenda for future museum practices and for the relationship between cities, citizens and their museums?

Participants are invited to present examples of their own experiences with multi-user and user-generated content installations, and to reflect on their experiences with operating these in a non-regulated milieu.

Type:

Mini-Workshop - teaches something or explores approaches

Mini-Workshop on Outdoor, Museum Interactions

Site:

http://www.vaeggen.copenhagen.dk

Authors:

Jette Sandahl

Jakob Parby

Allan Smith

Jakob Thorbek

Lotte Kryger Broe