It has been over a month since my last post here and everyone has been flat out working on a slew of projects, most of which have just gone public. The lead up to August is always one of the busiest times of the year at the Powerhouse with both Sydney Design and Ultimo Science [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Mobile'
First of our walking tours is in the AppStore
June 1st, 2011 5 Comments
This week the first in a series of walking tour iPhone Apps went live in the AppStore. Here’s the skinny. This tour has been developed from a printed tour produced by Curator of Astronomy, Dr Nick Lomb, in 2009. It has been expanded to include a tour of the Sydney Observatory precinct, the Observatory, grounds, [...]
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Nancy Proctor talk at Powerhouse Museum 19/4/11 on mobile 2.0
April 22nd, 2011 No Comments
Early this week Nancy Proctor, Head of Mobile Strategy at the Smithsonian Institution gave a free talk at the Powerhouse, courtesy of Museum3 and RMIT. The talk is quite a sobering walk through some of the emerging realities around the cost and rationale for mobile, as well as a discussion around how collectively we might [...]
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China Heart goes live – a mobile storytelling experience
January 27th, 2011 3 Comments
China Heart launches tonight, Thursday January 27, at the Powerhouse and the ‘general public’ (more likely, niche publics) can start playing it with all the special real-world additions between January 30 and February 13. Of course, you can play it outside this period – and you can even play it without being in Sydney. If [...]
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China Heart – mobile locative storytelling: interview with Tara Morelos, Annette Shun-Wah & Jennifer Wilson
January 14th, 2011 1 Comment
On January 30 the Powerhouse Museum becomes the start point for a locative mobile story/game called China Heart. This exciting free project runs all through Chinese New Year celebrations until February 13. China Heart is being produced by dLux Media Arts, developed by The Project Factory, and the narrative has been written by Annette Shun-Wah [...]
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WaterWorx – our first in-gallery iPad interactive at the Powerhouse Museum
November 1st, 2010 28 Comments
Last week we were installing our first deployment of iPads as gallery interfaces – and they went live on Friday night. Now in the newly refreshed Ecologic exhibition – open right now – you can play a game called WaterWorx deployed to a table of 8 iPads. WaterWorx is intended to convey the difficult of [...]
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On augmented reality (again) – time with UAR, Layar, Streetmuseum & the CBA
October 26th, 2010 3 Comments
Jasper Visser from the Nationaal Historisch Museum in the Netherlands has nailed some of the problems with augmented reality in his recent blogpost – ‘Charming tour guide vs mobile 3D AR‘. Jasper compares the analogue world experience of a guided architectural tour with the digital experience of using the Netherlands Architecture Institute’s UAR application to [...]
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The first iPad exhibition catalogues and a strategy framework
August 28th, 2010 Comments Off
Today was an iPad filled day for a few of the team. First, I wake up to find that the Venice Architecture Biennale has launched a ‘free’ iPad catalogue. Clocking in at over 400MB it isn’t a small download and the user interface is more ‘artful’ than ‘functional’. Still there’s a lot to like about [...]
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Sydney Design has an iPhone app
July 28th, 2010 Comments Off
Everyone is doing apps. It might not be the decision of choice for us ‘web people’ – our friends at the Brooklyn have recently agonised over similar decisions – but in the end actual user behaviour wins out in the short term over what we might consider best practice. (Of course, modelling on actual user [...]
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A little mobile data
June 20th, 2010 3 Comments
I’m a last minute addition to an AIMIA forum on Tuesday morning looking at the Digital Customer Experience. The forum is focussing primarily on mobile. In prepping the slides looking at in-museum and out-museum mobile experiences, I’ve dug up a little data that you may be intrigued by. If anything it reflects the type of [...]
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