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Re-Thinking Technology in Museums 2011Interaction Design Centre & Irish Museums AssociationThursday, May 26, 2011 at 10:00 AM - Saturday, May 28, 2011 at 1:00 PM (BST)Limerick, Ireland |
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Re-Thinking Technology in Museums 2011
"Re-Thinking Technology in Museums 2011" will focus on the theme of “Emerging Experience”, and will further the discussion on novel approaches for understanding people’s experiences in museums and galleries, and for designing interactive technologies to support these experiences.
Advance Programme
Thursday 26th of May
8.30 - Registration opens
10.00 - IMA Workshop: Irish Museums & Technology: Ideals & Realities
10.00 - 12.30 Other delegates are welcome to a free tour of the Hunt Museum in Limerick City Centre
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch & Meet & Greet
14.00 - Official Opening of the conference
14.30 - Paper Session 1
14.30-14.50: Jenny Kidd, Irida Ntalla, William Lyons (UK) “Sensing Interactivity in the Social Museum”
14.50-15.10: Rachel Charlotte Smith, Ole Sejer Iversen & Christian Dindler (Denmark) "Digital Natives: Creating Emergent Exhibitions through Digital Technologies"
15.10-15.30: Tom Flint, Phil Turner (UK) “The Role of Appropriation in the Design of Engaging Artefacts”
15.30 - Coffee Break
15.45 - Paper Session 2
15.45-16.05: Christophe Bortolaso, Cédric Bach, Francis Duranthon, Emmanuel Dubois (France) “Co-Design of Interactive Museographic Exhibits: the MIME Case Study”
16.05-16.25: Eva Hornecker, Emma Nicol (UK) “Towards the Wild: Evaluating museum installations in semi-realistic situations”
16.25-16.45: Ferhat Şen, Lily Díaz (Finland) “Historical Orchestra: An interactive audio/visual cultural experience”
16.45-17.05: Mark Leslie, Rob Molenaar (Ireland) “The Deployment of IT Tools in Four Recent Exhibitions”
17.05 - End
Evening: Tour of the Museum of Rugby and Banquet, Thomond Park Stadium, Limerick City
18.20 Bus leaves the University returning approximately at 11PM
Friday 27th of May
9.10 - Paper Session 3
09.10-09.30: Maria Economou & Niki Meintani (Greece), “Promising beginnings? Evaluating museum mobile phone apps”
09.30-09.50: Takumi Toyama, Thomas Kieninger, Faisal Shafait, Andreas Dengel (Germany) “Museum Guide 2.0 – An Eye-Tracking based Personal Assistant for Museums and Exhibits”
09.50-10.10: Alan Miller Lisa Dow, Colin Alison and Sarah Kennedy (UK) “Exploring Exhibitions in Virtual Worlds”
10.10-10.30: Thies Pfeiffer, Christian Liguda, Ipke Wachsmuth, Stefan Stein (Germany) “Living with a Virtual Agent: Seven Years with an Embodied Conversational Agent at the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum”
10.30-10.45: Innovation Forum Soapbox, IxDA
10.45 - Coffee Break & Innovation Forum
11.20 - Paper Session 4
11.20-11.40: Niall Smith, Alan Giltinan, Paul Walsh, Clair McSweeney, Frances McCarthy (Ireland) “Touching the Stars”
11.40-12.00: Dagny Stuedahl, Ole Smørdal (Norway) ”Re-thinking museum assemblies”
12.00-12.20: Katarzyna Warpas (UK) “Museum as a playground? – Designing digitally enhanced play spaces to improve children's engagement with museum objects”
12.20-12. 40: Anne Britt Ylvisåker (Norway) “Digitizing the valuable - value the digitized”
12.45 - Lunch & Innovation Forum
14.00 - Paper Session 5
14.00-14.20: Hyunsook Youn, Marian Stewart Titus (USA) “Mobile Phones in U.S. Science Museums: A Report of an Exploratory Survey”
14.20-14.40: Francesco Bellotti, Riccardo Berta, Alessandro De Gloria, Massimiliano Margarone (Italy) “LodeStar: a mobile device to enhance visually impaired people experience of cultural and naturalistic places”
14.40-15.00: Deborah Tumbull, Matthew Connell, Ernest Edmonds(Australia) “Prototype places: curating practice-based research in a museum context
15.00-15.20: Bee Chin Ng, Fabrizio Galli, Halina Gottlieb (Singapore) “Combining Language and Mythology: an interactive installation to preserve intangible heritage”
15.20 - Coffee Break & Innovation Forum
15.50 - Paper Session 6
15.50-16.10: Florian Windhager, Eva Mayr (Austria) “Re-Positioning Exhibits in Time and Space”
16.10-16.30: Pille Runnel, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt (Estonia) “Usability Components of Estonian National Museum’s participatory actions”
16.30-16.50: Spyros Vosinakis, Ioannis Xenakis (Greece) “A Virtual World Installation in an Art Exhibition: Providing a Shared Interaction Space for Local and Remote Visitors”
16.50 - Final Remarks
17.00 - Conference Ends
Saturday 28th of May
For delegates who will be staying in Limerick a little longer, free tours of the Hunt Museum in Limerick City Centre will be available on Saturday morning from 10AM onwards
http://www.idc.ul.ie/techmuseums11/
Twitter: techmuseums2011
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/ReThinkingTechnologyMuseum2011
When & Where
University of Limerick
Castletroy
Limerick
Ireland
Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 10:00 AM - Saturday, May 28, 2011 at 1:00 PM (BST)
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Organizer
Interaction Design Centre & Irish Museums Association
The Interaction Design Centre is an interdisciplinary research group at the University of Limerick (Ireland), focused on the design, use and evaluation of information and communications technologies.The focus is on human-centred design, with a strong interest in collaborative settings, exploring the design and use of novel interactive and communicative artefacts to support human activities.
The Irish Museums Association is a voluntary, not for profit association, founded in 1977. It is dedicated to promoting the interests of museums and the Irish museums community (those who work and are interested in museums) throughout Ireland, north and south of the border.