Tuesday, October 22, 2013

DIGM 680 - Week 5






Parry, Ross, ed. Museums in a digital age. Routledge, 2010.

Cameron, Fiona. "Museum Collections, Documentation, and Shifting Knowledge Paradigms." Museums in a Digital Age (2010): 80.

Frost, C. Olivia. "When the Object is Digital: Properties of Learning."Perspectives on object-centered learning in museums (2002): 72.

"...impact of the object may diminish significantly without the surrounding background necessary to understand its origins. "

Huhtamo, Erkki. "On the origins of the virtual museum." en PARRY, Ross: Museums in a digital age. London: Routledge (2010): 121-135.
-Exhibition design as a new medium
-avant-garde artists finding new ways to present art

Gammon, Ben. "Visitors' Use of Computer Exhibits: Findings from 5 Grueling Years of Watching Visitors Getting It Wrong." Informal Learning 38.p1 (1999): 10-13.
-There is no clear ‘average’ time that visitors spend at computer exhibits
-30-60 words per screen
-Restart button always cause problems
-Three modes of computer use/ three modes of behavior
-Purposeful use - people carefully and thoughtfully searching though the software looking for something specific.
-Exploratory - people flicking through pages looking carefully to find out what is there
-Playing - people rapidly moving through the different screens at random to see what happens

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