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Exhibit Design

CMME Final Exhibit Component

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Emily O'Hara

For the Creating Museum Media for Everyone (CMME) project, the team from the Museum of Science, Boston, aimed to develop a proof-of-concept exhibit component that used multisensory options to display data and whose components could be adapted into a basic … Continue reading →

Posted in Accessibility, Development, Exhibit Design, UI Design, Usability, Visitor Experience Tagged design, exhibit, exhibit design, interactive exhibits, museum, Museum Exhibit Design, museum technology, Museums, sonification, universal design, user interfaces

Multitouch Table Research Findings

Posted on July 30, 2014 by Jim Spadaccini

A recent addition to our Papers section here on Open Exhibits is worth highlighting here in Open Exhibit blog. Open Exhibits co-PI, Kate Haley Goldman and her colleague Jessica Gonzalez, conducted research at three of our partner museums (Indian Pueblo Cultural … Continue reading →

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

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

Open Exhibits 3.1 Update

Posted on January 8, 2014 by Ken Willes

The Open Exhibits Team has just released an update to the SDK: 3.1.0. This update continues the development effort of supporting Away3D, adding a new 3D layout infrastructure, and helper transformation classes that facilitate more natural object transformations relative to … Continue reading →

Posted in Accessibility, Development, Exhibit Design, Gestures, Multi-touch, OE SDK, Open Source, Software, UI Design

New Tutorials for Open Exhibits 3.0+

Posted on January 8, 2014 by Ken Willes

Open Exhibits has undergone major changes for its 3.0 release. The biggest changes have been in the way the system handles 3D gestures with Leap Motion and rendering with Away3D. In order to get up to speed with the new … Continue reading →

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

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

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