iPhone app from the American Museum of Natural History

[Alistair Jones]

Glad you checked it out!

Quick question: What space do you think the application was designed
for?  Does it make as much sense to use in the museum space as it does
to use it at home?

Thanks!

Alistair


On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 8:23 PM, James William Yoon
<james.yoon at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> I love it.
>
> The app encourages exploration and playfulness. Its interface is pretty
> simple and straightforward.
>
> Interestingly though, while I get really excited about exploring the mosaic
> of photos, I have almost no inclination to make use of its "Info" option to
> learn more about particular photos. I'm even less inclined to comment, and
> galaxies away from wanting to send any of the particular photos to my
> friends. I wonder if this is because the interface encourages surface
> exploration over deeper investigation (who wants to read and type when you
> can pan, pinch and zoom across tens or hundreds of thousands of photos?), or
> because there's a truly overwhelming number of photos I *could* read about
> (and thus pick none; i.e., the problem of too many candies to choose from),
> or because I'm a bad museum user, or because I have little interest in
> dinosaur bones.
>
> All of that notwithstanding, I think they did a fantastic job of creating an
> app that makes it *fun* to explore photos of their space, people, artifacts,
> and other domain-related things, if only for a few minutes before the
> novelty dries out.
>
> Thanks for sharing this!
>
> Cheers,
> James
>
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Alistair Jones <ajonesolt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Apparently the American Museum of Natural History has released an
>> iPhone app for its dinosaur bones exhibit.  I would love to test it
>> out, but I dont know have an iPhone...  If you check me know your
>> thoughts!
>>
>>
>> http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/02/american_museum_of_natural_history.html
>>
>>
>> Alistair
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