We hired Randi Korn (I'll have to get the correct spelling and phone number
for you) and Associates to evalutate the exhibit.  The exhibit included two
touch screen kiosk presentations and a web site.  I sat down with one of
Randi's associates for about 3 hours while she surveyed the web site.

They have experience with kiosk presentations, but web sites are fairly new
to them.  The web site itself needed to be addressed in two ways also, as a
site visited from home by a single person and as a site available on a
public kiosk in the museum.

The evaluation was undertaken after the web site was pretty much done.  As
I said, we made most of the changes that they suggested.

Jim



>Jim -
>
>Thanks for your response.  I have a couple of follow-up questions you may
>be able to answer.  Was the company you hired a "traditional" exhibit
>evaluation company that branched out into new media, or were they
>specifically looking at multimedia parameters?  When did you choose to
>conduct this evaluation?  Have you evaluated other web site content for
>your institution?  I would also love the name of the company you used, if
>you are comfortable with sharing that information.
>
>Thank you very much.
>
>Laura Milsk
>Web Site Exhibit Researcher
>Museum of Science and Industry
>57th Street and Lake Shore Drive
>Chicago, Illinois 60637
>773-684-1414 x 2968
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>>We hired a company to evaluate our Cats! web site as well as the traveling
>>exhibit.  They had a lot of good suggestions and changes are easy to make.
>>
>>Jim
>>
>>>I am new to this listserv, so excuse me if this has been discussed
>>>previously...
>>>
>>>I am wondering if any of you have hired anyone to evaluate online exhibits.
>>>We are going to be prototyping a new online exhibit soon, and would like so
>>>explore the possibility of formal evaluation.  I imagine that a multimedia
>>>environment requires a new set of parameters, but I'm not sure.
>>>
>>>Any advice would be helpful.
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>>Laura Milsk
>>>Web Site Exhibit researcher
>>>Museum of Science and Industry
>>>57th St. & Lake Shore Dr.
>>>Chicago, Illinois 60657
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>>Jim Angus
>>New Media
>>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
>>900 Exposition Blvd.
>>Los Angeles, CA  90007
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New Media
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