This is a presentation on the use of mobile applications and interactive technologies in museums. It also introduces the basis of digital storytelling. Since it includes some offline videos, colleagues who are interested in using the presentation in their teaching can contact me.

1. Museums in the
Digital Age: Mobile
Apps and Interactive
Technologies
Intro to Digital
Storytelling
DIGITAL HUMANITIES:
TECHNOLOGY
TRANSFORMING CULTURAL
HERITAGE
DR COSTAS PAPADOPOULOS
20 NOVEMBER 2017

2. Last Week

3. Today
Museum Technologies
Challenges in
the Adoption of
Technologies in
Museums
Introduction to
Digital
Storytelling

4. Museum Technologies
o Mobile Devices
o Interactive, Volumetric, and Holographic Displays
o Smart Objects
o Near-Field Communication/ Proximity Sensors
o Augmented Reality
o Virtual Reality
o 3D Printing
o Natural User Interfaces

5. Mobile
Devices

6. Mobile
Devices
Families and Mobile Devices in Museums: Designing for Integrated Experiences.

7. Mobile
Devices
Families and Mobile Devices in Museums: Designing for Integrated Experiences.

8. Proximity
Sensors

9. Proximity
Sensors
“The audio guide brings the museum to
life. And if you don´t have time or want
to know more you can download the
app on your own phone so you can
listen and read about WW2. Our
experience in whole is great!”
Birgir Jónsson Fjarðarbyggð
WWII Museum

10. Proximity
Sensors
“The audio guide brings the museum to
life. And if you don´t have time or want
to know more you can download the
app on your own phone so you can
listen and read about WW2. Our
experience in whole is great!”
Birgir Jónsson Fjarðarbyggð
WWII Museum

11. Proximity
Sensors

12. Augmented
Reality
Augmented Reality in the New Acropolis Museum, Athens (Chess Project)

13. Augmented
Reality
Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp

14. Augmented Reality

15. Virtual Reality
Kenderdine, S. 2013. Pure Land: Inhabiting the Mogao caves at Dunhuang. Curator: The Museum
Journal 56(2). 199-218

16. Virtual Reality
Hernandez, L. et al. 2004. The experience of the Empty Museum. Displaying cultural contents
on an immersive, walkable VR room

17. Smart Objects

18. Smart Objects
Offline videos included
Get in touch if you would like to use
them in your presentation

19. Smart Objects/
Tangible
Interfaces

20. Natural User
Interfaces

21. Interactive Displays,
Projections,
Interfaces
Offline videos included
Get in touch if you would like to use
them in your presentation

22. Interactive Displays,
Projections,
Interfaces
Offline videos included
Get in touch if you would
like to use them in your
presentation

23. 3D Printing

24. Challenges in
Technology Adoption
in Museum?
 Solvable Challenges
 Effective Digital Strategies
 Improve Digital Literacy of Museum
Professionals
 Difficult Challenges
 Improve Accessibility for Disabled People
 Measuring the Impact of Technologies
 Wicked Challenges
 Managing Knowledge Obsolescence
 Privacy
http://museum.wiki.nmc.org/Challenges

25. Digital Storytelling:
How to Tell Good Stories in Museums

26. A Little Science about Storytelling
o FROM BROCA’S AND WERNICKE’S AREAS TO THE WHOLE BRAIN
o EVOLUTION HAS WIRED OUR BRAINS FOR STORYTELLING
o OUR BRAIN PREFERS SIMPLE LANGUAGE AND LOW COMPLEXITY
o THE FRONTAL CORTEX OF OUR BRAIN (EMOTIONS) IGNORES
OVERUSED WORDS AND PHRASES

28. Starting a
Digital
Storytellin
g Project
o Start with the narrative
oWho is your audience?
oWhat are you trying to communicate?
oWhat is the message?

29. Building a
Digital
Storytelling
Project

30. Building a
Digital
Storytelling
Project
How long?
o Max. 1.5pages double-spaced
o 3min audio
o Photos, video, graphics, sound, or music

31. Building a
Digital
Storytelling
Project
Introduction
1
Development
2
Climax
3
Resolution
4

32. Building a
Digital
Storytelling
Project

33. Building a Digital Storytelling Project
The Hook

34. Building a Digital Storytelling Project
You only have
30 seconds

35. Building a Digital Storytelling Project
https://www.ted.com/talks

36. Building a Digital Storytelling Project

38. Museums in the
Digital Age: Mobile
Apps and Interactive
Technologies
Intro to Digital
Storytelling
DIGITAL HUMANITIES:
TECHNOLOGY
TRANSFORMING CULTURAL
HERITAGE
DR COSTAS PAPADOPOULOS
20 NOVEMBER 2017