Engage Resources

This page is a starting point for compiling interesting links, articles, and other resources that will be useful to the Engage team.

People and Resources

http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/speakers/index.html

http://ookl.org.uk/web/index.php

http://informalscience.org/

http://www.ilinet.org/display/ILI/Home

http://hoard.it/

Mike Ellis
http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/
http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/about-me/

Rory Matthews – an independent designer who has worked with a number of museums
http://www.rorym.com/index.shtml
Rory is happy to have conversations - rory@rorym.com

Frankie Roberto – UX guy – a bit of a trailblazer, I think
http://www.frankieroberto.com/
http://www.frankieroberto.com/weblog

Seb Chan
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/author/seb/

Aaron Straup Cope
http://www.aaronstraupcope.com/
Flickr Geolocation guy
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup
http://code.flickr.com/
http://code.flickr.com/blog/2008/10/30/the-shape-of-alpha/

Nancy Proctor
http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/~nancyproctor
http://www.antennaaudio.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1&lang=en_GB

Peter Samis
http://www.exhibitfiles.org/peter_samis
http://blog.sfmoma.org/2009/05/26/samis-on-shettar/
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/bios/au_3114.html

http://www.adaptivepath.com/mobileliteracy/

Resources to look at - CONTEXT

• Subscribe to the Museum Computer Network
• Look at archimuse best of web nominees
• Archives and Museum Informatics website
• Presentations from the recent Museums and the Web conference
• Tate Handheld Conference wiki
• Open Exhibits survey from 2008 and a link to 2009
• NYTimes article on the use of the web by museums
• Participatory Design, etc.
  http://www.museumtwo.blogspot.com/
• Center for History and New Media survey about Museums and Mobile Adoption from January - April 2009
  http://wiki.museummobile.info/museums-to-go/surveys
• Open Exhibits - survey on Computer-Based Exhibits
  http://www.openexhibits.org/survey-results.html
• A community site for exhibit designers and developers
  http://www.exhibitfiles.org/blog/
• Inspiring the Technological Imagination: Museums and Libraries in a Digital Age. Contributions about museums:
  • Inspiring the technological imagination: museums and libraries in a digital age
  • Museums: setting the context
  • Mobile experiences in art museums
  • Museum collections: digitization, dissemination, dialogue
  • Virtual museums: where to begin?
  • Online (art) museum experiences
  • Learning from the edges, Part 1: the importance of play
  • Learning from the edges, Part 2: technologies of participation
  • A bibliography of resources and weblinks
• Heritage 365, The Festival of Museum Design. Annual conferences that take place at the Science Museum of London. Conferences are published online.
  http://www.heritage365.com/;

Accessibility

• Findings and recommendations after the implementation of an American Sign Language handheld tour. Also, factors that influence whether visitors rent handheld tours; in-museum and online bookmarking to provide personalization & build return visits. Lessons from the Museum of Science's First Multimedia Handheld Tour
• Christine Reich @ Museum of Science, Boston: Universal Design of Computer Interactives for Museum Exhibitions
• People with disabilities visit museums: an exploratory study of obstacles and difficulties
• Notes on museum experience for people w/ cognitive disabilities

eDocent (Museum of the Moving Image) 

• During the month of March 2001, the Museum of the Moving Image tested the first prototype of an innovative wireless gallery information system called eDocent. eDocent was developed over the preceeding year with the partnership of the Internet services company Organic, Inc. Using eDocent, a visitor could browse multimedia information about Museum artifacts with a wireless, hand-held device. The eDocent prototype provided text, photos, audio, and video about four objects in the Museum.

Wayfinding, Positioning, and Object Recognition

WiFi

• Wifi Indoor Positions System (WIPS)
  • FAQ
  • Android Client (proof-of-concept) Code
• Indoor location search technology being trialled in south korea
• Example of Proprietary Implementation of WIFI tracking/positioning
• Nokia Indoor positioning research
  • One of the supporting/describing papers

Camera Phones

• Indoor Positioning and Navigation with Camera Phones
• Mobile Phone-Enabled Museum Guidance with Adaptive Classification
• Accessibility Solutions in Mobile Devices

RFID

• Cheap, Accurate RFID Tracking of Museum Visitors for Personalized Content Delivery
  • Presentation slides for above paper
  • Great paper/presentation on an RFID in museums study that also talks about the possibilities in positioning, and frames some of the positioning considerations (independent of a particular technology)

Browser support

• Geolocation in Firefox and Fennec
• WiFi Scanning in Mozilla (bug report)

Other

• Various location format implementations