More opportunities to provide feedback

Thanks for your interest and participation in the Open Exhibits community.  With exciting new changes and additions in the works, the Open Exhibits team is again seeking to get feedback, better understand people’s use of the Open Exhibits resources, and to gauge … Continue reading

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Human Computer Interaction in Informal Science Education Conference (HCI+ISE)

Exciting news! We just received funding from the National Science Foundation to host a conference on human computer interaction in informal science education.  HCI+ISE will be held June 11-14th 2013 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  Kathleen McLean from Independent Exhibitions and I are the … Continue reading

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Open Exhibits at ASTC 2012 Conference

(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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Improved Papers and A New Bounty

As we gear up for the release of Open Exhibits 2.5 later this year, we have expanded the Papers section of the website. Papers now includes a search function and better tagging to help you navigate and find what you … Continue reading

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Fall 2012 Conference Round-up

This fall brings three exciting conferences of interest to the Open Exhibits community, and lead Open Exhibits organization Ideum will be participating in each. The first is ASTC 2012, the Association of Science-Technology Centers conference in Columbus, Ohio on October … Continue reading

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Open Exhibits – The Road Ahead

Over the next few weeks you will start to see more changes on the Open Exhibits website.  There are a few new developments with the project. Charles Veasey is now the Project Coordinator for Open Exhibits and he is busy … Continue reading

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Getting Started for Non-Programmers

Since the release of the Open Exhibits 2.0 back in March, we’ve been busy building new components, updating the SDK (software development kit) (we are now at version 2.0.4 if you haven’t updated lately), and improving the site.  One item … Continue reading

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The Maxwell – An Experiment in Viewing

The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology has recently opened a new exhibition, “An Experiment in Viewing,” which features an Ideum multitouch table with Open Exhibits Collection Viewer. Curators Catherine Baudoin and Amy Grochowski selected a broad range of culturally and geographically diverse … Continue reading

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Multitouch Table Exhibit with Audio Layer Prototype

As I mentioned in my previous post,  Open Exhibits Lead Developer, Charles Veasey and I attended a workshop at the Museum of Science in Boston this week that explored accessibility issues in computer-based exhibits.   In the next few weeks, we will share … Continue reading

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Playsurface: Low-Cost Multi-Touch Table

New kickstarter for a low-cost multi-touch table! LED lighting, flat-pack wood chassis, and dedicated tracking electronics. MS Surface performance, low price. Continue reading

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