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Digital technologies and the museum experience : handheld guides and other media / edited by Loïc Tallon and Kevin Walker.
LIBRA AM7 .D53 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Museums--Technological innovations.
- Museums.
- Museums--Educational aspects.
- Digital media.
- Pocket computers.
- Cell phones.
- Digital cameras.
- MP3 players.
- Museum visitors--Education.
- Museum visitors.
- Museum exhibits.
- Education.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : AltaMira Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- The biggest trend in museum exhibit design today is the creative incorporation of technology. Digital Technologies and the Museum Experience: Handheld Guides and Other Media explores the potential of mobile technologies (cell phones, digital cameras, MP3 players, and PDAs) for visitor interaction and learning in museums, drawing on established practice to identify guidelines for future implementations.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Mobile, Digital, and Personal / Loic Tallon xiii
- Part I Defining the Context: Three Perspectives
- 1 The Exploded Museum / Peter Samis 3
- 2 Enhancing Visitor Interaction and Learning with Mobile Technologies / John H. Falk, Lynn D. Dierking 19
- 3 Designing Mobile Digital Experiences / Ben Gammon, Alexandra Burch 35
- Part II Delivering Potential
- 4 Audibly Engaged: Talking the Walk / Jeffrey K. Smith, Pablo P. L. Tinio 63
- 5 Mobile Multimedia: Reflections from Ten Years of Practice / Silvia Filippini-Fantoni, Jonathan P. Bowen 79
- 6 Improving Visitor Access / Ellen Giusti 97
- 7 Structuring Visitor Participation / Kevin Walker 109
- 8 Designing for Mobile Visitor Engagement / Sherry Hsi 125
- 9 Cross-Context Learning / Paul Rudman, Mike Sharples, Peter Lonsdale, Giasemi Vavoula, Julia Meek 147
- 10 Interactive Adventures / Halina Gottlieb 167
- 11 Afterword: The Future in Our Hands? Putting Potential into Practice / Ross Parry 179.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-222) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780759111196
- 0759111197
- 9780759111219
- 0759111219
- OCLC:
- 214282256
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