Museums and the Web

An annual conference exploring the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line.

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Levelling up: Towards best practice in evaluating museum games

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games
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evaluation
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best practice
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interaction
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audiences
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gamification
Abstract: 

Games, and game-like experiences, are becoming increasingly important to museums seeking to engage new audiences and to provide deeper engagement with existing audiences. Demonstrating the value of commissioning and producing games as a core activity of museums is imperative.

Type: 
Paper - in formal session

Streetscapes

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soundscape
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interaction
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Visitor contributions
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streetscapes
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audio installation
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Other Interaction - describe in notes
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My Great North Run: Facilitating rich audience participation

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participation
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interaction
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multi-modal
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digital pen
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Digital media can create rich interaction spaces providing diverse and reflexive opportunities for participation from audiences. This demonstration will highlight the possibilities and limits of user-contributed content in distributed and multimodal interactive museum installations to support such interaction.

Type: 
Demonstration - show your project

Mini-Workshop on Outdoor, Museum Interactions

Type: 
Session
Date & Time: 
Apr 8 2011 - 3:30pm
Location: 
Commonwealth C/D

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

Description

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 ...

Interaction – Thoughts on Encountering a New Organization

Type: 
Session
Theme: 
organizations
Date & Time: 
Apr 8 2011 - 2:30pm
Location: 
Congress

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

Description

We'll bring together museum technology professionals who have made a job change since the last MW, to hear first impressions of their new posts; consider how leaving one job and starting another may have influenced their thinking about their former positions; and discuss the different ways in which technology, change, innovation, and collaboration are approached in their past and present wo

Gaming the museum

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gaming
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interaction
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new audiences
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collections
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education
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education
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exploration
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Why, with the vast resources, and fundamental human subjects at our disposal, have museums failed to make more than a handful of really compelling games? Are we too wedded to the idea that games must be educational? Do we lack the in-house skills to make subject matter and game engines gel, or are we simply trying to enter an overcrowded marketplace with too few resources?

Type: 
Mini-Workshop - teaches something or explores approaches