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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…

Spy in the City: The GPS Game of Washington DC

Have you ever spied on someone? Have you ever wanted to be a real spy?

The International Spy Museum in Washington, DC now offers an amazing taste of what it’s like with a GPS-triggered game and tour of the city. Inspired by two real FBI cases – Operation Lemon-Aid, conducted…

Chris & Ted’s Excellent iPod Tours

Apple makes it look so easy – and it is, if you’re as brilliant, creative and resourceful as Chris Alexander from San Jose Museum of Art and Ted Forbes of Dallas Museum of Art. In this podcast, Chris & Ted walk us through their developments of…

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…

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