The adoption of Google Glass within museums is in its infancy. How can it facilitate visitor engagement? What are the limitations? What are the opportunities? In a partnership sponsored by the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program at the MIT, the MIT Museum collaborated with a Media Lab student to realize and test a Glassware prototype. Both the design issues and the visitor feedback offer the opportunity to reflect on the design of a new kind of museum experience. http://marcomason.mit.edu/speaking/ukmw14-museums-beyond-the-web http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/2014/08/12/ukmw14-programme/ @marcomason

1. Google Glass at the MIT Museum
a Visitor Experience Study
Marco Mason

2. Marie Curie fellow
marcomason.mit.edu

3. Digital Media for Heritage
Refocusing Design from the Technology to the Visitor Experience
Institute of emerging Issues
Gallery One, CMA
Behind the Scenes, MFA
Native American Voices
Penn Museum
Tenement Museum, NYC
Infinity of Nations, Smithsonian Inst.

5. Glassware prototype at the MIT Museum
Project sponsored by
UROP-MITUndergraduate Research Opportunities Program
Chun Kit Chan - MIT Media Lab u-student
Prof. John Durant - STS Program and Museum dir
Allan Doyle - Director of Technology at MIT Museum
Dr. Marco Mason - STS Program at MIT
Extra acknowledgement
Deborah Douglas and Kurt Hasselbalch
School of Museum Studies - Dr. G. Vavoula

6. Robotics Gallery at the MIT Museum

7. Kismet robot

8. Tuna robot

9. C O G robot

10. Observation

11. Interviews

13. CAN GOOGLE GLASS
BECAME PART OF THE EVERYDAY
MUSEUM EXPERIENCE?

15. “Google has yet to make a convincing case
that a wearable heads-up display is a necessity
rather than a novelty.” (Wohlsen, WIRED)
* Wohlsen, Marcus. “Failure Is the Best Thing That Could Happen to Google Glass.” WIRED, April 15, 2014

19. GlassJournalism
* hwww.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jul/30/google-glass-istanbul-protests-vice

22. David Datuna, “Portrait of America” - 2013
* http://hyperallergic.com/108565/smithsonian-brings-google-glass-to-the-museum/

23. Glassware prototype at the MIT Museum

25. Mobile >>> Glass expereince
* http://gizmodo.com/5599789/american-museum-of-natural-history-explorer-app-makes-paper-museum-maps-ancient-history

26. portable | wearable

27. *http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/kismet-new/kismet.html

28. direct interaction

33. context-sensitive content

34. Augmented Reality

35. layering information

36. Characters in Augmented Reality
* www.fastcodesign.com/3028351/magical-ipad-app-makes-darth-vader-your-tour-guide
EYE Film Museum, Amsterdam

37. subjective point-of-view

38. subjective point-of-view
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39. proximity

40. proximity
* http://theappslab.com/2014/04/17/google-glass-ibeacons/

41. proximity
* http://theappslab.com/2014/04/17/google-glass-ibeacons/

42. orientation

43. orientation > tours
*IMAGE FROM: JET BLUE ENVISIONS CUSTOMERS USING GOOGLE GLASS

44. interface layout
* https://developers.google.com/glass/design/style

45. SHOW IT WITH THE GLASS
* https://developers.google.com/glass/design/style

49. marcomason.mit.edu
@marcomason
mm584@le.ac.uk

50. Thank you