Michael, my doctoral research focused on the visitor experience using mobile augmented reality in exhibitions, using the AR mobile app Skin & Bones <http://naturalhistory.si.edu/exhibits/bone-hall/> that we produced at the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum as a case study. Our project collected extensive quantitative and qualitative data from visitors in the exhibition and from all users through analytics. We expect the dissertation to be available sometime in March and several articles to be published in museum journals around the same time or a little after; it should provide good information for your purposes. Best, Diana
*** Diana Marques www.dianamarques.com <http://www.dianamarques.com/> Scientific Illustrator & Animator Digital Media PhD, UT Austin | Portugal CoLab Smithsonian Fellow, National Museum of Natural History > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 11:26:36 -0500 > From: michael.wh...@pc.gc.ca > To: mcn-l@mcn.edu > Subject: [MCN-L] Research into AR and VR use in museums and natural > and cultural heritage institutions > Message-ID: > <ofd69f0982.c8983e27-on85258074.0059fcb8-85258074.005a5...@pc.gc.ca> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > > I had a great time at the MCN conference this year as a first time > participant, and wanted to subsequently reach out to the community > regarding a project I've been asked to tackle. Apologies in advance, as I > just joined the MCN listserve and may have missed previous conversations on > this topic, and also I've cross-posted this on a couple other listservs > that members may also subscribe to. > > I've been asked to compile a kind of research paper/white paper for use at > Parks Canada (general info and trends research and a scan of what's > currently being done) on the ways that museums, parks, historic sites and > similar cultural and natural heritage institutions, are using AR and VR, > what the trends are, what the concerns/issues are, what's worked and what > hasn't, and what applications seem to have the best return on investment. > > We're seeing a lot of staff working in Canada's national parks and historic > sites expressing interest in both VR and AR, which is not surprising, and > we are increasingly getting pitches from partners and companies on a large > range of VR and AR products and services, but we haven't done a lot of > thinking nationally yet into how best to tackle these technologies in a > cost effective manner that can be scaled across a system where some places > have lots of resources and others have very limited resources. The > challenge for us is always trying to maintain a certain consistency of > quality level while offering digital media products and programming across > a system of 150 locations with widely varying digital expertise, staff and > time resources, and public infrastructure and visitation. > > If anyone has any advice or experiences they'd like to share, or knows of > any existing reports that are similar or touch on parts of this then we'd > very much appreciate the intel. > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Michael White > > Analyste principal de la recherche - Nouveaux m?dias, Direction de > l'exp?rience de la marque > Parcs Canada / Gouvernement du Canada > 30 rue Victoria (PC-02-E), 2-11, Gatineau QC J8X 0B3 > michael.wh...@pc.gc.ca / T?l. : 819-420-9300 > > Senior Research Analyst - New Media, Brand Experience Branch > Parks Canada / Government of Canada > 30 Victoria Street (PC-02-E), 2-11, Gatineau QC J8X 0B3 > michael.wh...@pc.gc.ca / Tel: 819-420-9300 > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > mcn-l mailing list > mcn-l@mcn.edu > http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > > End of mcn-l Digest, Vol 135, Issue 15 > **************************************
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