My notes from our chat with Museum of the Moving Image today

[Colin Clark]

Hey everyone,

Here are my notes from our conversation today with Jason Eppink and  
Carl Goodman for the Museum of the Moving Image. Interesting stuff.

Colin

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Some projects that the Museum of the Moving Image has in mind for  
Fluid Engage:

     1. Interactive animation stands: let people take their animations  
home with them, directly on their phone
     2. Remote controls for in-gallery video screens: use the phone to  
controls clips on the screen
     3. CollectionSpace integration:
	- scan a bar code, or wirelessly look up more information, get access  
to the collection
	- visitor can take that information home with them (ie. physical  
bookmarking)
     4. A location aware treasure hunt activity
     5. Location-aware triggered sound: not an fixed audio tour, but  
sounds cued based on context
	- say, David Lynch talking about the importance of sound while in an  
exhibit that covers sound in movies


• Not just physical bookmarking of objects already in the collection:
	- allow visitors to take home the results of their interactive  
activities

• eDoscent: a pilot mobile project run by MMI in 2000
	- problem they encountered was that people didn't necessarily want to  
follow up
	- the "here and now" is the key
	- need to incentivize the pre/post visit

• MMI has little interest in way finding; they have a small space,  
emphasize the value of getting lost
	- instead, want to approach this in an exhibit-driven way
	- preserve the primacy of the visitor to determine their own in- 
gallery experience
	- leave notes to person i know, tied to a physical location and  
artifact

• layered curatorial approach
	- a library: here's a collection of stuff
	- "our perspective:" advocated by the curatorial staff
	- invited experts: material assembled by filmmakers, for example
	- visitor's perspectives
	* goal: "to elevate the mundane, not denigrate the important"

• Carl suggested we take a look at other past mobile-related projects,  
such as the HandScape project




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Colin Clark
Technical Lead, Fluid Project
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto
http://fluidproject.org