learning from mobile experiences in museums
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Presentation summarising five years of mobile learning projects and their evaluation in the British Museum's Samsung Digital Discovery Centre. This was presented at the MCG Museums Get Mobile! event in Bristol on 16 May 2014.TRANSCRIPT
Learning from mobile experiences
Museums Get Mobile!16 May 2014
in museums
Images by benedictjohnson.comShelley MannionBritish Museum
Increasingly, visitors access the British Museum website through mobile devices.
Get away from stop-based treasure hunts
Active and participatory
Experiential
Collaborative
Accommodate different learning styles
Gift for Athena
Content
Collaboration
Interaction styles
Testing and evaluation
Content
Fragmentation is vital to the
production of the museum
both as a space of posited
meaning and as a space of
abstraction. ..meaning derives
not from the original context
of the fragments but from
their juxtaposition in a new
context.
From Destination Culture,Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Opportunity?
Gift for Athenahttps://vimeo.com/95471372
The Museum Game – National Museum Australiahttp://www.nma.gov.au/engage-learn/game
Collaboration
Screen size
Friendship groups
Role of analogue
Social interaction
Heist by Ideumhttp://vimeopro.com/ideum/openexhibits/video/30206823
Interaction styles
Gifts for Athena – Challenge 1https://vimeo.com/95501915
Very creative and you can remember it more if you do something yourself. Student 65
Image Al Jazeera English on Flickr
It felt like I was actually throwing those sins away. 41
I found qualities of myself which I would like to lose. 84
Made me feel pure and took my anger away. 53
Frohberg, et al 2009Adapted by Doll 2012: 31
Only 11 of 102 mobile learning apps used this approach
Voice recording,drawing
Testing and evaluation
User journey map create by Gamar
Drawings from post-session questionnaire
Image by Patrick Lauke on Flickr
Exhibition banners
Map plinthsVisitor guide
Top 10 map
Souvenir book
Visitor services staff
Multimedia guide
Digital signage screens
Visitors’ own devices
Information ecosystem