An Audio Tour Review: Warhol at the De Young
This week’s podcast is aimed primarily at students in the Online course on Mobile Interpretation for Museums developed for TEC-CH Online, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, though it also provides pointers on what to look for in an audio tour for anyone developing a museum audio tour. Students…
Audio Tours 101b: Technology and Theatricality
In the second of the ‘Audio Tours 101′ podcast mini-series, Chris Hardman and David Torgersen discuss the pros and cons of linear and ‘random access’ tours, and how different technologies condition both content and user experience design.
‘Random access’ to tour content, allowing visitors to chart their own…
Audio Tours 101: Writing the Rules
This week kicks off a mini-series of podcasts on the basics of audio tours: their history and fundamental principles; the role of technology and theatricality in their evolution; the primacy of the story and the question of who gets to tell it.
In the first podcast, Chris Hardman, founder…
