ROM staff share fieldwork updates on Twitter
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My slide deck for a portion of the MuseumNext 2015 Wearable Tech panel. Slides look at 10 months of Google Glass experimentation at the Royal Ontario Museum
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ROM staff share fieldwork updates on Twitter
- 1. Ryan Dodge @wrdodger / @ROMtoronto
- 3. Cheryl Fraser ROM Web Manager @FraserCee
- 5. April Hawkins New World Archaeology Technician @AprilsMuseum
- 7. Dr. Burton Lim - Mammalogist @burtonlim Glass in the field - Dominican Republic January 2015
Editor's Notes
- In early November 2014 the ROM acquired two pairs of Google Glass. We set about experimenting with them ASAP.
- Here’s my boss, Cheryl on our first excursion into the galleries with our glass. We felt like rock stars as staff and visitors were stopping us and talking to us about glass. Many many selfies were taken…..
- *PLAY* We played around with the glass for a few weeks, testing out the various features. It is always interesting to see what people do when they see you wearing glass… Cheryl and I became the super users of glass at the ROM and our ambition was to become comfortable enough with them so that we could share them with the entire staff. We really wanted to delive the 1st person views of our curators and researchers to the public. After a few weeks of testing, that’s exactly what we did.
- This is my friend April, she’s our New World Archaeology technician and one of our most socially active staff members, please do follow her on twitter. She has a large collections of Zapotec Urns in her area. many of them are fakes. She contacted me to see if she could use glass while working on one urn….
- *PLAY* and here’s her point of view
- Burton’s observations, “there's a learning curve and it takes a bit of getting used to. For things up close (arms length), the object of interest will probably be off centre but if you adjust the prism then the screen isn't completely visible.”
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- “This made a big difference for me working at night and using a headlamp as my lighting source. I deleted a lot of video/pics. However, it is good for hands-free stuff but I found there was a limit to how long I could wear it comfortably for. Most people were impressed with it though. It does give a different perspective on things so it comes down to if it's worth the extra piece of technology or if your phone camera will suffice.....”