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IMLS Funds New Partnership Between Open Exhibits & Omeka

Posted on September 19, 2014 by Jim Spadaccini

We are excited to announce a new partnership between The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, Ideum (makers of Open Exhibits) and the University of Connecticut’s Digital Media Center. Our organizations have been awarded a National Leadership Grant … Continue reading →

Posted in Community, Other, Software

A Web for Everyone: Designing Accessible User Experiences

Posted on April 11, 2014 by Nora Galler

Check out UX Magazine’s excerpt of Sarah Horton and Whitney Quesenbery’s book on accessibility, A Web for Everyone: Designing Accessible User Experiences. Through the use of case studies on individuals with different accessibility challenges, the authors present clear overviews of how … Continue reading →

Posted in Accessibility, Community, Exhibit Design, Research, UI Design, Usability, Visitor Experience Tagged UI, universal design, user experience, user interface, UX, web design

We’re Gearing up for the AAM Museum Expo

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Nora Galler

Open Exhibits and Ideum are getting ready to host a booth (#2809) in the Technology Innovation Zone at next month’s AAM Museum Expo in Seattle. We hope those of you attending will stop by our booth to see the … Continue reading →

Posted in Community, Conference, Development, Education, Exhibit Design, Multi-touch, OE SDK, Open Source, Software, UI Design, Visitor Experience Tagged 4k UHD, 4K ultra HD, 4K ultra high definition, AAM, American Alliance of Museums, ideum, multitouch coffee table, multitouch drafting table, multitouch hardware, open exhibits, ultra high definition

Open Exhibits is Now 100% Free

Posted on March 12, 2014 by Ken Willes

Big news: Open Exhibits is now free for commercial use! This has been made possible by merging GestureWorks Flash with Open Exhibits. Open Exhibits 4.1 offers, for free, all of the features of the final available version of GestureWorks Flash … Continue reading →

Posted in Accessibility, Community, Development, Exhibit Design, Gestures, Multi-touch, OE SDK, Open Source, Other

Open Exhibits Seattle Bound for AAM 2014

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Nora Galler

Open Exhibits will be at the AAM Expo in their new Technology Innovation Zone (booth 2809) featuring OE software on Ideum multitouch tables. The Expo is not until May, but we’re excited to be participating again this year and to show … Continue reading →

Posted in Accessibility, Community, Conference, Exhibit Design, Hardware, Multi-touch, OE SDK, Open Source, Software, UI Design, Usability, Visitor Experience Tagged AAM, AAM Expo, HCI, HCI+ISE, Human computer interaction, ideum, interactive exhibits, Multitouch, multitouch exhibits, multiuser, museum conference, Museum Exhibit Design, museum technology, Museums, open exhibits, software development kit

Major Release: Open Exhibits 3

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Ken Willes

We are excited to announce the Open Exhibits 3 release which includes a number of significant and exciting improvements to the free and open HCI software framework. The most fundamental change to the framework is in how Open Exhibits 3 … Continue reading →

Posted in Accessibility, Community, Development, Gestures, Hardware, Multi-touch, OE SDK, Open Source, Software

HCI+ISE Conference Proceedings Available Online

Posted on October 8, 2013 by Nora Galler

The proceedings of the HCI+ISE conference, held in June, are now available online. You can read the complete document in the Papers section of the Open Exhibits site or on ISSUU. An accessible PDF version is in the works. Special … Continue reading →

Posted in Accessibility, Community, Conference, Education, Exhibit Design, Research, Visitor Experience Tagged ARIEL, augmented reality, experiental, future studies, Human computer interaction, Informal science education, interactive exhibits, museum conference, museum technology, Museums, open exhibits, professional conference, user interfaces, visitor experience

Survey: Connecting In-Gallery Experiences with Online Content Management Systems

Posted on September 27, 2013 by Nora Galler

Open Exhibits community members: Ideum (lead organization on Open Exhibits), the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, and the UConn Digital Media Center request your participation in a survey about connecting in-gallery experiences with online content management systems. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Community, Development, Exhibit Design, Open Source, Research, UI Design, Usability, Visitor Experience Tagged content management systems, exhibit design, ideum, Multitouch, museum, Museum Exhibit Design, Omeka, open exhibits, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, Survey, touch, UConn Digital Media Center

Open Exhibits featured in Huffington Post Tech Blog

Posted on August 20, 2013 by Nora Galler

Open Exhibits was recently featured in a tech blog article in the online edition of the Huffington Post. The article, Open Source Collaboration in Museum Exhibit Design, describes Open Exhibits and another open source initiative, The Tech Open Source. Open … Continue reading →

Posted in Accessibility, Community, Development, Exhibit Design, Gestures, OE SDK, Open Source, Software Tagged 3D development, actionscript, Away 3D, Creative Markup Language, Gesture Markup Language, GestureWorks, Huffington Post, Leap Motion, Museum Exhibit Design, open exhibits, Open Source, software development kit, Tech Open Source

New Exhibit Download: Museum Timeline

Posted on July 8, 2013 by Jenny Wright

The timeline exhibit is a multitouch interface that allows scrolling of information panels accompanied by a description overlay panel. The exhibit is fully configured in CML to support easy customization of features. Each panel can have associated images and descriptions. … Continue reading →

Posted in Accessibility, Community, Development, Exhibit Design, Multi-touch, Open Source, UI Design, Usability, Visitor Experience

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