{"id":51393,"date":"2015-08-06T09:22:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T13:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=51393"},"modified":"2015-08-06T09:23:13","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T13:23:13","slug":"translating-physical-spaces-into-digital-experiences-daly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2015\/08\/06\/translating-physical-spaces-into-digital-experiences-daly\/","title":{"rendered":"Translating physical spaces into digital experiences [Daly]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Translating physical spaces into digital experiences<\/strong><\/a> — from create-hub.com by Sorcha Daly
\nCultural institutions have a big challenge on their hands in a digital age. How does the experience of a physical space, of visiting a building housing priceless objects, one-of-a-kind artefacts and engaging exhibitions, translate digitally?<\/em><\/p>\n

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We\u2019re seeing a huge increase in digital engagement with cultural institutions, with online visitor numbers far outweighing the number of people who make it through the doors. The British Museum<\/a>, for example, received a whopping 35.3 million online visitors in 2014, compared with an in itself record-breaking 6.8 million physical visitors, the most of any UK museum or gallery. Add to this an impressive social media haul and that\u2019s a lot of people who are engaging with the institution away from the building. This pattern is common to cultural institutions across the board.<\/p>\n

So how exactly is digital changing the way people experience cultural institutions and how can they start using these changes as ways to better engage with audiences?<\/p>\n

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Several galleries have been using iPhone apps as enhanced alternatives to the audio tour guides, complete with additional interviews and comments from curators and personalities. Tate Modern<\/a>\u2019s London\u2019s guide to last year\u2019s Matisse Cut-Outs exhibition was particularly good, featuring additional images and an audio biography of the artist\u2019s life. The Art Gallery of NSW<\/a> also introduced a Chinese language guide app after noticing that there were many Chinese visitors to the gallery who would benefit from additional content.<\/p>\n

These apps could be really powerful if extended across the entire visit to unlock stories throughout the building. Imagine walking past an unremarkable-seeming sculpture, for instance, and a tap notification appearing on your Apple Watch displaying a fascinating fact about the significance of the object. This could be powered with simple iBeacons technology.<\/p>\n

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From DSC:<\/span>
\nMight some of these same ideas and concepts be applied within our libraries? Our art galleries? Other locations?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Translating physical spaces into digital experiences — from create-hub.com by Sorcha Daly Cultural institutions have a big challenge on their hands in a digital age. How does the experience of a physical space, of visiting a building housing priceless objects, one-of-a-kind artefacts and engaging exhibitions, translate digitally? Excerpts: We\u2019re seeing a huge increase in digital […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[277,286,391,180,327,511,14,509,156,312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-digital-learning","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-innovation","category-library-librarians","category-machine-to-machine-communications","category-mobile-learning","category-near-field-communication-nfc","category-usability","category-user-experience-ux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51393"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51396,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51393\/revisions\/51396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}