Download - Horizon Technologies 2014
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 [email protected] 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