вЂ“ with reference to Falks situated identities: visitors motivations are key вЂ“ Mobile technology can now do far more than museums ask for (there was a really nice graph for this, but I didnвЂ™t get my camera out in time, and I havenвЂ™t been able to find the slides online) вЂ“ but what is it we need it to do?ДЄs demonstrated in videos and audioclips from past museum tours, with some lovely examples like Stedelijks groundbreaking 1952 broadcast technology and a dramatic Tuttenkhamun tour narrated by Orson Welles. вЂ“ Think about what experience you want to create, what content or what stories you want to share вЂ“Get past default вЂwe need an appвЂ™ thinking orВ simply replacing audioguide # with QR codes вЂ“ Central characteristics of smart phones:В digital, personal, portable, connected are not one and the same вЂ“ explore the specific affordances вЂ“ Smart phones, tablets, audioguides etc. Loic TallonвЂ™s top tips for museum mobile designД«e specific about what mobile is (and is not) Listed in the photo below, IвЂ™ve added my own notes on the six tips beneath. So more on that later.ДЄimed primarily at designers, the presentation centered on six tipsВ how to think about designing mobile projects for museums, reminding newcomers to the museum field that while smart phones may be the latest craze, mobile interpretation tools in museums go back a long way. So, in short, heвЂ™s cool, and has a solid knowledge of and experience with this field, and IвЂ™m thrilled that he agreed to do an interview when I get to New York. He also co-edited Digital Technologies and the Museum Experience: Handheld Guides and Other Mediawith Kevin Walker and co-wrote the paper вЂ Going Mobile?вЂВ with Isabel Froes for MW2011, amongst other things.

Tallon is director of Pocket-Proof, a digital consultancy specialized in helping museums develop strategies for mobile media with some pretty cool projectsВ under their belt chair of the Museums and Mobile online conference В and producer of the annual Museums and Mobile Survey. Last week, C openhagen Institute of Interaction DesignВ hosted an open lecture by Loic Tallon. Which explains why the entries get shorter and shorterвЂ¦ Loic Tallon open lecture at CIID: Adapting to mobile: a museum perspective (26/2) Also they serve as a lesson in getting it down while itвЂ™s still fresh in your mind, as I realize that some of the (surely brilliant) thoughts I had after some of the earlier events I now canвЂ™t recall, like how inspired I was by Else SkjoldвЂ™s research or the details of working with CeciliaвЂ™s probe. Over the last few weeks, I have attended a handful of interesting events which deserve summing up for future reference, and because they presented insights worth sharing.

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