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Hybrid Museum Experiences
"So you're the one getting this gift? Lucky you!
Someone who knows you has visited the museum.
They searched out things they thought you would care about, and they took photos and left messages for you."
This is the welcoming message for the Gift app, designed to create a very personal museum visit. Hybrid Museum Experiences use new technologies to augment, expand or alter the physical experience of visiting the museum. They are designed to be experienced in close relation to the physical space and exhibit. In this book we discuss three forms of hybridity in museum Incorporating the digital and the physical, creating social, yet personal and intimate experiences, and exploring ways to balance visitor participation and museum curation.
This book reports on a 3-year cross-disciplinary research project in which artists, design researchers and museum professionals have collaborated to create technology-mediated experiences that merge with the museum environment.
Someone who knows you has visited the museum.
They searched out things they thought you would care about, and they took photos and left messages for you."
This is the welcoming message for the Gift app, designed to create a very personal museum visit. Hybrid Museum Experiences use new technologies to augment, expand or alter the physical experience of visiting the museum. They are designed to be experienced in close relation to the physical space and exhibit. In this book we discuss three forms of hybridity in museum Incorporating the digital and the physical, creating social, yet personal and intimate experiences, and exploring ways to balance visitor participation and museum curation.
This book reports on a 3-year cross-disciplinary research project in which artists, design researchers and museum professionals have collaborated to create technology-mediated experiences that merge with the museum environment.
230 pages, Hardcover
Published April 4, 2022
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May 23, 2023
We all want to harness and incorporate technology into our experiences, but how to do that the right way?
We often times fail to do this in a meaningful way- we plug the technology in first and then try to work our objectives around it. This can create a disconnect, a "what's the point?" for visitors.
Hybrid is a way to intergrate tech with the physcial space/physcial visit. A way to bridge physcial and virtual
Hybrid is not digital. Some uses of digital technology can just be "embellishments" of what was once physcial- like a digital map kiosks. Or, like VR, are experienced in isolation
Speaking of isolation- must consider the the visitor. While I would say most visits to museums and libraries are social in nature (therefor we must think of activities to be done together), think of ways an individual can share the experience with someone not with.
Museums and libraries are great places to strengthen social ties. Hybrid creates social yet highly personalized experiences.
I really liked the Never Let Me Go game. I like how some of the prompts encouraged looking and experiencing the art. PLEX Playful Experience
My ideas I would like to try: "Gift" a book recommendation, complete with that person being put on hold for it, so they can start reading right away.
Library stories: Patrons can donate library items and tell stories about it. Example: summer reading shirts, an old library card, and special collections could also do this for exhibits.
Fantastic website with resources:
https://gifting.digital/
We often times fail to do this in a meaningful way- we plug the technology in first and then try to work our objectives around it. This can create a disconnect, a "what's the point?" for visitors.
Hybrid is a way to intergrate tech with the physcial space/physcial visit. A way to bridge physcial and virtual
Hybrid is not digital. Some uses of digital technology can just be "embellishments" of what was once physcial- like a digital map kiosks. Or, like VR, are experienced in isolation
Speaking of isolation- must consider the the visitor. While I would say most visits to museums and libraries are social in nature (therefor we must think of activities to be done together), think of ways an individual can share the experience with someone not with.
Museums and libraries are great places to strengthen social ties. Hybrid creates social yet highly personalized experiences.
I really liked the Never Let Me Go game. I like how some of the prompts encouraged looking and experiencing the art. PLEX Playful Experience
My ideas I would like to try: "Gift" a book recommendation, complete with that person being put on hold for it, so they can start reading right away.
Library stories: Patrons can donate library items and tell stories about it. Example: summer reading shirts, an old library card, and special collections could also do this for exhibits.
Fantastic website with resources:
https://gifting.digital/
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