CMME: Using Personas in Exhibit Development

Posted on  December 30, 2014 by Emily O'HaraView all posts by Emily O'Hara

Personas, or hypothetical archetypes of actual users, were created as part of the Creating Museum Media for Everyone (CMME) project. Each persona represents a potential visitor and their characteristics were developed using real user data. These personas were meant to … Continue reading →

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Open Exhibits at ASTC 2012 Conference

Posted on  August 17, 2012 by Shelley MannionView all posts by Shelley Mannion

(Cross-posted from the Ideum blog.) The Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) will be hosting its annual conference October 13-16 in Columbus, Ohio.  Ideum and Open Exhibits will be sharing a booth (#709) and showing off multitouch and arduino-based hardware and software.  … Continue reading →

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Designing Open Exhibits for the British Museum

Posted on  August 17, 2012 by Shelley MannionView all posts by Shelley Mannion

This week, we finalized our designs for two prototype exhibits for the British Museum. In discussing them with the Open Exhibits team, our priority was how to design exhibits that are simple to produce (without ActionScript programming) yet deliver a … Continue reading →

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