More Than Tours: radical opportunities in mobile content design and social media

dbear — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:40:06 +0000

MW2011

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audio tour

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tour guides

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non-tour

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untour

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mobile

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content design

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Experience Design

Abstract:

This workshop is now full.

New mobile and social media platforms have hugely expanded the ways in which museums can interact with their audiences – and even with each other! Nonetheless, museum mobile experiences still tend not to stray far from the traditional audio tour in experience and content design. This workshop is designed to get us thinking "outside the audio tour box" to devise radical new approaches to mobile experiences for museum audiences.

Led by innovative mobile practitioners and museum experience designers, the workshop will challenge us to transform the relationship with museum audiences by engaging them in doing meaningful, mission-focused work, and being true co-creators of our cultural institutions. We’ll ask how content creation might be shared with audiences and among museums; how new tools like augmented reality and location-based gaming and social media apps can expand the mobile experience beyond the museum’s walls; and what research exists and is still needed to help inform our next generation mobile decisions. Outcomes will include both new paradigms for museum mobile experiences, and concrete solutions for building them.

Type:

Workshop - full or half day

Mobile 'Untours' - FULL

Authors:

Nancy Proctor

Sandy Goldberg

Ed Rodley

Koven Smith

Halsey Burgund

Dave Schaller

Kate Haley Goldman

museumsandtheweb.com - Experience Design

More Than Tours: radical opportunities in mobile content design and social media