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Welcome to Open Exhibits 2.0

The new site and software development kit (SDK) are here. Both are brand new and built from the ground up. Continue reading

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Open Exhibits 2.0: New SDK & Website Coming March 28th

In just 28 days a new version of the Open Exhibits software and a brand-new website will launch. When we first built the site and released the 1.0 version of the SDK back in November 2009 we didn’t anticipate that … Continue reading

Posted in Community, Other, Usability, Visitor Experience

Collection Viewer 2.0 – Multiscreen Capable With Editing GUI!

As part of the new Open Exhibits release next month, we are releasing a new and improved version of the Collection Viewer. The 2.0 version has the ability to display images or related video on second display, improved metadata support, … Continue reading

Posted in Development, Exhibit Design, Gestures, Hardware, Multi-touch, OE SDK, Software, UI Design, Usability, Visitor Experience

100 Years Exhibition Now Open at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center

This weekend we had the pleasure of attending the opening of 100 Years of State & Federal Policy: The Impact on Pueblo Nations at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center (IPCC). The exhibit has two media-based interactive exhibits and while these … Continue reading

Posted in Culture, Exhibit Design, Hardware, Multi-touch, UI Design, Visitor Experience

New Multitouch SDK and a New Site Coming in March!

It’s February 2012. For Open Exhibits, this means we are approaching the halfway point in our three-year project. Over the last 18 months, we’ve been working hard and have learned a lot, mostly from you, our community members. Late last … Continue reading

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Emerging Exhibits: Exploring New Models of HCI – Course at Ontario Science Centre

Later this spring, I will be teaching a course on exhibit development for the Cultural Resource Management Program at the University of Victoria. The course will be held in Toronto at the Ontario Science Centre from April 22-24. It is … Continue reading

Posted in Development, Education, Multi-touch, UI Design, Usability, Visitor Experience

Cyberlearning Research Summit

The National Science Foundation is sponsoring a one-day conference in Washington DC exploring computing and networking in both formal and informal education. You can tune into the Webcast (and archive) at: http://cyberlearning.sri.com/webcast/ The conference page describes the summit. NSF has … Continue reading

Posted in Education, Research

What Will You Build with Open Exhibits?

It has been a little over a year since the Open Exhibits website launched an we began posting software modules and templates. Over the new year holiday, the Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA) and community member Lance Castillo posted a … Continue reading

Posted in Community, Exhibit Design, Multi-touch, OE SDK, Open Source, Software, UI Design, Visitor Experience

100 Years Exhibition at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center

(Cross-posted from Ideum blog) Early next month, 100 Years of State & Federal Policy: The Impact on Pueblo Nations exhibition opens at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The exhibit is tied to the state of New … Continue reading

Posted in Exhibit Design, Hardware, Multi-touch, Software, UI Design, Usability, Visitor Experience

Heist! at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology

On Friday Heist software was used to show digital objects at the Opening of the “Look Close See Far: A Cultural Portrait of the Maya” exhibit opening at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology. The digital objects were from the Maxwell’s … Continue reading

Posted in Community, Exhibit Design, Hardware, Multi-touch, UI Design, Visitor Experience
  

This project is made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under Award Number MG-30-14-0037-14.

Matching funds for OpenExhibits are provided by Ideum, makers of custom exhibits, touch tables, video walls and touch walls. Ideum also rents multitouch tables.

Open Exhibits is powered by
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