Mediating the Future in Exhibitions

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DOI of the original publication
URI
https://irf.fhnw.ch/handle/11654/31274
http://dx.doi.org/10.26041/fhnw-2080
Project type
angewandte Forschung
Project start
26.01.2011
Project end
2012
Project status
abgeschlossen
Project contact
Torpus, Jan
Project manager
Tobler, Beatrice
Torpus, Jan
Contributors
Wolfensberger, Rolf
Seiler, Tonio
Stettler, Niklas
Description
Abstract
The team developed, dramaturgically staged and evaluated a tangible info space with a ubiquitous computing approach for a museum. Academy of Art and Design IDK HGK FHNW in collaboration with the Museum of Communication Bern, iart-interactive AG and Element Design GmbH.
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Strategic action fields FHNW
School
Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst
Institute
Institut Experimentelle Design- und Medienkulturen
Financed by
Kommission für Technologie und Innovation (KTI)
Project partner
Museum of Communication Bern
iart AG
Element Design GmbH
Contracting authority
SAP reference
Keywords
Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI)
user experience
media anthropology
museology
visitor evaluation
ubiquitous computing
design reserach
laboratory
future
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Medienanthropologie im Museum: eine Ausstellung als Forschungslabor
(Universität Bern, 2013) Torpus, Jan-Lewe; Tobler, Beatrice; Wolfensberger, Rolf [in: Tsantsa]
As a result of a practice-oriented research project, the Museum of Communication in Berne opened a new exhibition space entitled «Living Room of the Future» in Spring 2012. It is designed to complement the existing permanent exhibition «As Time Goes Byte» on the history of computing and digital culture. The new exhibition module not only addresses future computing technologies and their use but also forward-looking technologies. Within the framework of the research project, the authors conducted a user-centred evaluation of a prototype of the exhibition module, which was also conceived as a laboratory for practice-based media-anthropological studies. Specific test groups were observed during their visits to the exhibition and immediately afterwards interviewed about their experiences. The results of the evaluation were then converted into the final realisation of the exhibition. These findings represent valuable ethnographic evidence on the experiences of human beings with familiar and unfamiliar media at a time of increasing integration of everyday life with communication and information technologies.
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