iPhone app from the American Museum of Natural History

[James William Yoon]

I think the app is designed specifically (and exclusively) for the
out-of-museum case. I can't imagine anyone using this chronically in-museum,
in part because the content often unrelated to the museum space (e.g.,
pictures of staff or researchers, of excavation sites, etc.), but mainly
because there's no way to link what you see on the device to what you see in
the space, or vice versa.

James

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Alistair Jones <ajonesolt at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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