Interactivity in Museums

Last week myself and two classmates, Leslie Carbonnier and Hilary O'Shaughnessy, held a seminar in class about Interativity in Museums.
We explored 3 different areas;
The Online User experience of the Museum: Leslie observed how the visitor’s experience of the museum has changed with the arrival of museum websites and the possibility to visit the collections/exhibitions online. The pre and post physical-visit was examined.
Digital Visitor Engagement in the Museum: Focusing on the visitor experience whilst in the museum, Hilary identified current trends in interactive visitor engagement within the museum through the use of apps, games, and demonstrate what the research tells us about those interventions, why and how they are being adopted, and what can be gained.
Interactive Installations: I explored different types of installations, investigating what makes an exhibition engaging and successful. I gave a short overview of visitor types and how the viewer distributed their attention and how they would explore the installation.

After our presentations we each gave the class an activity.  We created a blog with photos and the class could upload their beautiful creations! You can check out what we did here

If you're interested in the topic and would like to learn more, we created a wiki page of our research you can check it out here