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Overcoming Barriers to Adopting a Mobile or Tablet App

jsanabria — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 22:07:21 +0000

MW2012

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iphone

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iTouch

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mobile phones

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collection

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downloadable

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iPad

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android

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json

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Apps for museums are here to stay. But for many institutions, there are still questions about when and how to get started. Join us as we discuss how adopting an iPad kiosk or mobile app is easier than you may think. You'll also learn tips for creating Social Engagement, Walking Tours, Scavenger Hunts, Accessibility Features and more.

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Exhibitor Briefing - discuss your product. Confirmed Exhibitors only

Overcoming Barriers to Adopting a Mobile or Tablet App

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http://guideonemobile.com

Authors:

juan sanabria

Design of an Appreciation Support System for Public Art Using Mobile Phones

k.fushimi — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:48:22 +0000

MW2011

Kiyoka Fushimi, Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin University, Japan; Hirokazu Yoshimura, Hosei University, Japan; Hiromi Sekiguchi, Oita Prefectural College of Arts and College, Japan; Takahiro Anasako, Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin University, Japan; Hiroyuki Une, Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin University, Japan; and Karin Barac, Griffith University, Australia

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The purpose of this study is the development of a navigation system that will help enhance appreciation for urban art by connecting viewers with other people's thoughts and opinions of art pieces. Hiroshima, located in western Japan, has many works of public art that have assumed a theme of peace. However, in Japan, it seems that the appreciation of art is restricted to the elite, and the majority of people do not seem interested enough to visit art museums. We have designed a system that allows users to share an appreciation of public art in urban spaces by using their mobile phones.

Keywords: user-centered design, public art, collaboration, mobile phones, art appreciation

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Design of an Appreciation Support System for Public Art Using Mobile Phones

Mobile Phones and Visitor Tracking

JulianBickersteth — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 19:18:01 +0000

MW2011

Julian Bickersteth, Smarttrack and International Conservation Services, Sydney, Australia; and Christopher Ainsley, Shoppertrak, USA

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Google Analytics provides museums with extensive data around visits to their virtual sites. Physical visits and directional paths which visitors take around museums are currently much harder to monitor. This paper discusses the opportunity that mobile phone Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and TMSI signals provide to allow visitor tracking. The resulting data has potentially great value to museums in understanding how exhibitions and museum spaces are used, in forming exhibition design, assessing the return on investment of interactives, and even profiling visitors. A pilot study undertaken in the retail sector is discussed.

Keywords: visitor tracking, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, TMSI signals

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Mobile Phones and Visitor Tracking

Developing Dynamic Visitors Guides, Floor plans, Mobile Navigation and Location Awareness

lperrylube — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:51:33 +0000

MW2011

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location aware mobile computing

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digital mobile museum tour

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WI-FI triangulation

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iphone

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iTouch

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mobile phones

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This workshop is now full.

Workshop examines the processes to identify visitors’ navigation and interpretation needs; and develop and deploy dynamic wayfinding, mapping, tours and visitor guides. Attendees will review the American Museum of Natural History Explorer implementation as a case study. Members of the Museum’s Digital Media department, Networking/IT department and the Museum’s development partner, Spotlight Mobile will share how they developed and deployed the Explorer iPhone app.

Workshop includes a review of the technical steps necessary to deploy location awareness including WI-FI access, CISCO MSE, data interpretation, routing and content management. The workshop will also review options for Museums to create tours, floor plans and dynamic visitor guide content with minimal effort through the Meridian web based editor.

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Workshop - full or half day

Mobiles Inside Museums - FULL

Site:

http://www.amnh.org/apps/explorer.php

Authors:

Linda Perry-Lube

Art App-reciation: Fostering engagement and reflection in museums through a social mobile application

oshaer — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:10:38 +0000

MW2011

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Art App-reciation: Fostering Engagement and Reflection in Museums through a Social-Mobile Application

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social

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mobile

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collection

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human-computer interaction

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iphone

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iTouch

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mobile phones

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Novice museum visitors often lack the skills for interpreting and engaging with works of art on display. We have observed visitors glossing through exhibits lacking the capacity to make meaning from art viewing. A social mobile application that we have created and tested helps novice visitors to actively engage with works of art, develop their vocabulary, and enhance their art-viewing skills. Supporting novice users in building art-viewing capacity is essential for making a lasting impact on visitors and encouraging life-long learning in the arts.

This paper presents the design, development, and evaluation of Art-e-Muse, a social mobile application that helps novice viewers develop the skills needed to actively engage with works of art. Art-e-Muse has been developed and tested in the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, an academic fine-arts museum on the Wellesley College campus. Through the deployment of Art-e-Muse we investigate how the use of mobile human-computer interaction paired with social networking can offer advantages for museums seeking to redefine the museum experience for novice visitors.

Art-e-Muse was designed using a participatory design methodology and is implemented as an iPod Touch and iPhone application utilizing the Facebook Connect API. During the period of May through July 2010, we conducted a series of workshops with museum staff, students, and faculty. As a result, we set three goals for Art-e-Muse: 1) fostering engagement with works of art, 2) promoting dialogue about art between members of a community, and 3) encouraging repeat visits to the museum. To accomplish these goals, Art-e-Muse diverges from the traditional museum guide approach in which experts provide information for visitors to consume. Interaction with Art-e-Muse is initiated when visitors use the device camera to scan a two-dimensional code placed next to a work of art. Art-e-Muse then presents users with a series of prompts that serve to create an interactive and reflective experience. Prompts are short and specific for each work of art. Prompts may include questions that encourage deep looking, anecdotal facts, and brief exercises requiring users to consider narrative, style, artists’ intent, and technique. A game mechanic rewards users with coins from the museum collection when certain milestones are accomplished. To create a sense of social presence and foster a dialogue, the application allows users to share insights, responses and accomplishments with their friends on Facebook. The game mechanic leads to deep engagement and encourages users to make return visits to the museum.

The system was preliminary evaluated during August 2010. Findings indicate that novice users were engaged with works of arts, spending a significant amount of time with each work. Users were eager to use Art-e-Muse and expressed their satisfaction learning new ways to think of works of art both from the prompts and from others’ responses. Following this evaluation, we deployed Art-e-Muse in a permanent collection gallery and are currently evaluating its use. Our methodology includes direct observation, data collection through system logging, surveys, and in-depth interviews.

This paper will describe the design, technical development, and results from the evaluation of Art-e-Muse.

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Paper - in formal session

Mobile Parade

Site:

http://www.davismuseum.wellesley.edu/collections/index.html

Authors:

Orit Shaer

Jim Olson

MaCherie Edwards

Consuelo Valdes

Explorer - Mobile Navigation and Interpretation at the American Museum of Natural History

lperrylube — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:51:59 +0000

MW2011

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Explorer - Mobile Navigation and Interpretation at the American Museum of Natural History

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wayfinding

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explorer

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navigation

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application

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iphone

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iTouch

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mobile phones

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collection

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downloadable

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digital mobile museum tour

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location awareness

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This paper advocates a visitor-centric approach to designing a solution for navigation and interpretation. The American Museum of Natural History iPhone application Explorer combines state of the art location awareness, interpretation, and social networking to deliver an enhanced visitor experience both onsite and online. AMNH had three objectives with this project: to facilitate visitor navigation, to provide an application that appeals to visitors and encourages repeat visits, and to enhance exhibit information without detracting from the exhibits themselves. This paper examines the reasoning behind utilizing a mobile device for wayfinding; the choice of the iPhone platform; the challenge of bringing “GPS indoors” and the resultant technical solution; feature set determination and usability; the role of mobile devices in the pre- and post-Museum visit continuum; the challenges of curated mobile content creation; deploying the application on Museum-supplied devices and through the iTunes store; and marketing of the device and app. We will present the challenges faced by AMNH in executing a cross-Museum enterprise and share lessons learned, in order to offer the wider museum community an opportunity to build on our experience and expertise.

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Paper - in formal session

Mobile Parade

Site:

http://www.amnh.org/apps/explorer.php

Authors:

Linda Perry-Lube

Melissa Lefkowitz

Design of an Appreciation Support System for Public Art Using Mobile Phones

k.fushimi — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:42:38 +0000

MW2011

Published Paper:

Design of an Appreciation Support System for Public Art Using Mobile Phones

Keywords:

user-centered design

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collaboration

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mobile phones

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public art

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art appreciation

Abstract:

The purpose of this study is the development of a navigation system that will help enhance appreciation for urban art by connecting viewers with other people’s thoughts and opinions of art pieces. Hiroshima, located in western Japan, has many works of public art that have assumed a theme of peace. However, in Japan, it seems that the appreciation of art is restricted to the elite, and the majority of people do not seem interested enough to visit art museums. We have designed a system that allows users to share an appreciation of public art in urban spaces by using their mobile phones.

The main characteristics of this study were to build a system that:

induced a positive appreciation among users
enabled the sharing of text and images
heightened user-experience through involvement
was based on User-centered design and had provisions for color blindness.

The system which we have designed has been tested and improved on three occasions to date and is targeted at those who have few opportunities to appreciate art. The repetition of this experiment within the confines of Hiroshima City, found that the experience of public art was enhanced through the use of this mobile phone system. These results would seem to indicate that public art pieces do benefit the average person who rarely visits museums in a positive way.

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Paper - in formal session

Mobile Parade

Authors:

Kiyoka Fushimi

Hiroyuki UNE

Takahiro ANASAKO

Hirokazu YOSHIMURA

Hiromi Sekiguchi

Karin Barac

Old Masters at your fingertips: the journey of creating a museum app for the iPhone & iTouch

biblio — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:10:52 +0000

Sexton, C., & Lagoudi E. (2010). Old Masters at your fingertips: the journey of creating a museum app for the iPhone & iTouch. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web.