MuseumMobile

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Evaluation-led Mobile Experience Design

At the MCN conference in Portland in November, I presented some of the research I’ve been doing on new approaches to mobile experience design. Sheila Carey from the Canadian Heritage Information Network kindly put together a panel for the conference on “Making the Call: Evaluating Mobile Projects in…

Peter Samis on Mobile Multimedia

“Peter Samis is to museums as James Brown is to soul,” was tweeted earlier this year from the American Association of Museums (AAM) conference in Philadelphia. There is no doubt that Peter’s spirit has inspired my work in museum interpretation ever since my first multimedia tour projects with…

The Gallery Overview: An Experiment at the IMA

Visiting the Indianapolis Museum of Art during Museums & the Web 2009 was an inspiration in many ways, but the one we got on tape was a discussion and subsequent experiment in creating an audio tour gallery overview. Richard McCoy, objects conservator at the IMA, and Beth Harris,…

Museum Podcasts: A SmartHistory.org Dialogue

This week we finally get to hear from two people who are very largely responsible for inspiring the MuseumMobile podcasts: Beth Harris and Steven Zucker. Both were art history professors at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York when they founded SmartHistory.org as an online art history…