If you’ve run into me in New York City since I moved here six months ago I’ve probably badgered you about Sleep No More. It was something I saw in my first weeks after moving here after two aborted attempts on previous trips to New York. Best described as an immersive theatrical experience, it has [...]
Entries Tagged as 'User experience'
Experiencing The O at MONA – a review
October 27th, 2011 11 Comments
A lot has been written about the Museum of Old and New Art and I’m not going to rehash any of that. Instead I’m going to look at their mobile guide – The O – which is provided to every visitor and included in the admission price. Here some of the fleet of 1300 Os [...]
More on mobile tech impacts in museums (extended Mashable remix)
September 15th, 2011 5 Comments
There’s a nice introductory piece today that features some of the recent Powerhouse Museum work in Mashable. It is a broad overview piece of how the Smithsonian, the NY Museum of Jewish Heritage and the Powerhouse have been utilising mobile technologies in galleries and exhibitions. Reading some of the comments and picking up on some [...]
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Interview with Rob Manson on Layar, streetARt and the AR Dev Camp
August 5th, 2011 No Comments
A little while back at the beginning of June we hosted the Sydney AR Dev Camp. Organised by Rob Manson and Alex Young, the AR Dev Camp was aimed at exposing local Sydney developers to some of the recent developments in augmented reality. A free event sponsored by Layar and the Powerhouse, it filled the [...]
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A new Powerhouse Walking Tours App and a Q&A with Glen Barnes
July 20th, 2011 No Comments
About a month ago our second walking tour App went live in the AppStore and was promptly featured by Apple leading to a rapid spike in downloads. The Powerhouse Museum Walking Tours App is a free download, unlike our Sydney Observatory App, and it comes pre-packaged with two tours of the suburbs surrounding the Museum [...]
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Making Love Lace – a cross device exhibition catalogue & the return of the QR
July 6th, 2011 6 Comments
Estee Wah has been busy bringing Love Lace, our upcoming contemporary art exhibition, online. She’s been wrangling content and ensuring that the website is able to act as a fully fledged (and expanding) catalogue for the show as well as revealing much of the individual artists’ processes in a behind the scenes section. This exhibition [...]
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Building Sydney Design 2011 as a cross-platform site
July 4th, 2011 2 Comments
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 [...]
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Prototyping moveME – a location-aware indoor mobile App with tracking
June 6th, 2011 2 Comments
Last week at CeBIT the announcement came through that a project that has been under wraps for a little while now received NSW Government funding to move ahead. It is a collaborative project bringing together commercial partners with the Museum being used, as our Director puts it in the media release, “to directly support the [...]
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That popup survey tool for Fresh & New feedback
January 31st, 2011 4 Comments
One of the nice finds of the past few months has been Kiss Insights. You’ve probably noticed a little pop up survey on this blog – and maybe you’ve even answered it – well, that’s Kiss Insights doing its magic. Easily deployed to a website, Kiss Insights is a bit of Javascript code that calls [...]
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