What Technology is on Your Museum’s Horizon? HEATHER MARIE WELLS

Inspiration

"The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- uncertain

Agenda

The processThe technologiesImplication activity

http://www.nmc.org/publications/2013-horizon-

report-museum

ProcessLiterature review

Systematically & boardly answer research questions:

Which of the key technologies will be most important to museum education in the next 5 years?

What key technologies are missing from the list?

What are key challenges related to education that museums will face during the next 5 years?

What trends will have a significant impact on the ways museums use technologies in mission-mandated goals related to education?

Multi-vote ranking system takes place to establish 12 technologies (4 per adoption time frame)

Further research and expansion of topics to conducted

Another voting takes place to narrow down to 6 technologies.

The Technologies0 - 1 years 2 - 3 years 4 - 5 years

BYOD Electronic Publishing

Natural User Interfaces

Crowdsourcing Location Based-Services

Preservation and Conservation Technologies

BYOD - 0-1 Year

Staff and visitors

Wayfinding

Sharing

Learning

Crowdsourcing - 0-1 Year

Promote community engagement

Fundraising (Kickstarter or Patreon)

Generating information

Volunteer workforce

E-Publishing - 2-3 Years

50% of Americans access news online

Repurpose existing content, inexpensive, various distribution outlets

Next phases: link platforms together, responsive design

Location-based Services - 2-3 Years

Content customized to user's location

Extend physical reach, connect people, advertising/marketing

Next phase: indoor geolocation (iBeacon and Google indoor maps)

Natural User Interfaces - 4-5 Years

Touch, voice, and gestures

Simulated interaction with objects

Users become a part of the experience

Preservation and Conservation Technologies - 4-5 Years

How do we keep this digital media for the future

Digital curation, migration strategies, and new techniques

Training new types of conservators

Supplies of parts

Inspiration

“Use your intelligence guided by experience" —Rex Stout

Activity

Implication Wheel

Inspiration

"The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to." --Alan Kay

Take Aways

Advancement benefits from technology, but doesn’t necessarily require it

It’s easier to keep-up then to catch-up

Look for connections between things

Look for convergences

Inspiration

“Everything has to be done by someone for the first time; it might as well be you.” -- Ryan Wells

Thank You for Coming!HEATHER MARIE WELLS HEATHERMARIE.WELLS@CRYSTALBRIDGES.ORG WWW.LINKEDIN.COM/IN/HEATHERMARIEWELLS/ @HMWELLS

Image CreditsJohnson, L., Adams Becker, S., Freeman, A., (2013). The NMC Horizon Report: 2013 Museum Edition. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium. Cover photograph by Visit El Paso: “El Paso Exploreum Museum.” Creative Commons Attribution License.

Augmented Reality at Museu de Mataro by Kippelboy, April 2012

Crowdsourcing by adesigna http://www.flickr.com/photos/adesigna/4983863106/

By Mariordo (Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz) (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

By choko (you are here) [Public domain or CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

"John Underkoffler points to the future of UI," TEDTalk, February 2010. Full talk available at TED.com

"Corporate interior: Violet Mirrored Illusion” by Phil Manker