what will the museum of the future be like?

Enhancing Objects through Digital Media in Exhibitions

I am interested in novel ways in which museums or technology developers work towards enhancing visitors' experience of authentic objects on the exhibition-floor. In the past, museums deployed labels, then touch-screen information kiosks and PDAs/nomadic systems, more recently they have turned to the utilise visitors' mobile phones and such like. There also has been a long-standing interest in deploying robots in galleries.

Does anyone know of any new developments or experiments that are being undertaken in the UK or elsewhere?

Tags: exhibits, interpretations, technology

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Permalink Reply by Pat Long on December 9, 2009 at 11:51pm

Hi Dirk
Really interesting subject matter I think. I'm currently doing some research for an MA course into the application of augmented reality technologies in the physical museum space. I think that this is a really exciting development that could really bring exhibitions to life by allowing curators to overlay a digital information layer onto the physical space.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0XgItb_jhA

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Permalink Reply by Dirk vom Lehn on December 9, 2009 at 11:56pm

Hi Pat,

I see that you are at Birkbeck. Are you working with George Roussos by any chance? Maybe, it's worthwhile meeting up at some point?

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Permalink Reply by yves apeloig on December 10, 2009 at 12:11am

Yes
In France last two years
Lately at the museum des arts et metiers Paris
Percipio is a augmented reality device, totally free hand with a behavioral acquisition mode, able to recognize what you are looking and what your interest with.
Inside as well outside.
Connected to a data base (embarked or wifi) it can search AND sequences all contents (audio video) according the POI and your interest.
By recording continuously and automatically the data's course (about seventeen parameters now but can be more) it make possible to enhancing the objects threw enriched reconstruction of the visit, according the course, the objects, the order of the visit, the preferences ...
The enhancing process here cover both the real time of the visit and the post visit.
Percipio is fully operational.
I will be happy to give you more details
Yves

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Permalink Reply by Roger Busschots (Infofilm) on December 10, 2009 at 2:13am

Hi Dirk,
We try to put as much as possible actual information on this subject on our website http://museummedia.nl You can also follow our tweets http://twitter.com/museummedia MUSEUMMEDIA.NL is the online place for curators and museum staff looking for the most up-to-date information on new media for museums. - PARTICIPATION: who wants to participate? Specialists, producers, suppliers, send us your information: info@museummedia.nl. Initiative by 'Infofilm, new media for museums'

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