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Museums of the Future Seminar
University of Limerick
Limerick, Ireland
Tuesday, June 2nd, 1998
(Please note that the date has been
changed from May 19th to June 2nd)
Museums, cultural heritage centres and the like use computers to enhance
the visitor experience and to make information about the museum and
samples from the collection accessible world-wide via the Internet. The
new possibilities brought about by using computers in museums are still
under investigation and have recently led to some discussion as to what
constitutes a museum. The idea of the Museums of the Future Seminar is
to bring together people with different backgrounds - museum curators,
multimedia designers, architects, psychologists, ergonomists,
anthropologists, museum visitors of different categories etc. - to
discuss issues surrounding the use of IT in museums today and in the
future.
Topics will include: enhancing the user experience, who are museum IT
designed for?, what is the role of museums?, what is the role of
multimedia within specific exhibits?, the role of narrative vs.
game-type interfaces?, how should museum objects be packaged?, views on
exploratorium type centres, ergonomics of IT use in public spaces, the
concept of the 'virtual museum', reports on user experiences with museum
web sites etc.
The main aim of the seminar is to gauge interest, and identify people
and concerns to be followed up subsequently. The plan is just to start
the ball rolling, get inputs and views from people on different sides of
the debate, and share information and experiences, plus have some demos
of systems, or prototypes at least.
Program
09h30-10h15 Registration
10h15-10h30 Opening remarks, Liam Bannon
10h30-11h30 A system developer's point of view, Mark Leslie
11h30-12h00 Coffee
12h00-13h00 A museum professional's point of view, John Hunt
13h00-14h30 Lunch, White House
14h30-16h00 Videos, presentations, and work groups
16h00-16h30 Coffee
16h30-17h00 Wrap up
Speakers
Mark Leslie, the first speaker, has an architectural and multimedia
background, has worked on museum projects, and will provide a system
developer's point of view on museums and IT.
John Hunt, the second speaker, has a museum background, is the former
director of the Hunt Museum in Limerick, and will provide a museum
professional's point of view on museums and IT.
Videos, presentations, and work groups
The afternoon session is open to discussion and contributions from the
participants. We encourage participants who have videos of systems,
presentations of projects, topics for discussion or the like to contact
us. The time we can allot to each participant will depend on the number
of contributions but to facilitate everybody we will have to limit
participants to short presentations.
The seminar will take place in lecture theatre FG042 in the Foundation
Building.
The fee for the seminar is ?20, to be paid upon arrival. We hope you
will be interested in participating in the seminar and would appreciate
if you could return a registration email, fax, or postal mail before
Tuesday May 26th. Please include your name, company/institution,
address, phone, and email.
Best regards
Morten Hertzum
Interaction Design Centre
Foundation Building
University of Limerick
Limerick, Ireland
Phone: +353-61-202606 and +353-61-202699
Fax: +353-61-202572
Email: [log in to unmask]
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