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Yes...it's all coming back to me. About six stations overseen by staff,
where you logged in before going up in the elevators? And a music editing
station plus a video capture and video editing station where you could
videotape yourself and then edit the video. That was a forerunner to the
Digital Studio we designed at The Tech, with similar concepts of video
editing, music editing, image editing, etc. on a network. But back when
bandwidth was such an issue that a print-out was the only souvenir. Thanks
so much for piping up! I will check in with you offline with some
questions.

I've been noodling the idea of an exhibit/program wiki that would be te
next generation of ExhibitFiles, and allow people to submit stub articles
for others to flesh out, as well as to log which exhibits were influential
to the next generation of exhibits. Some exhibits were really seminal to
the field, such as the Sony Wonder exhibit for networked media and editing,
and the Engineer It exhibit from OMSI for "loose parts" and design
challenges such as building two boats with materials held together by
magnets and racing them in a channel of water. It seems like having
pointers from some exhibits to others would be a bit like tracking down
"most cited papers" in academia. Wondering if anyone else would add to such
a database?

On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Erich Rose <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> I worked on the original Sony Wonder while with ESI. If you have any
> questions I might be able to answer them. It was certainly one of the
> earlier attempts at personalizing the experience. I designed the log in
> stations where you recorded your name, voice and took a picture.  There was
> a log out station that printed a diploma recording what you did during your
> visit.
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> On Mar 2, 2013, at 1:01 PM, Rachel Hellenga <[log in to unmask]>
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> > I'm writing up an overview of "personalizing the museum visit" for ASTC
> > Dimensions and am hoping to tap the collective memory of this group for a
> > minute:
> >
> > Does anyone remember a networked exhibit done at the Franklin Institute
> in
> > the early 1990's that tracked visitors by type, e.g. teacher, child,
> > family? I remember learning about it from someone who said the visitors
> > became preoccupied with the info they weren't shown, but I don't have the
> > details. Any leads on the name of the exhibit or who worked on it and who
> > evaluated it?
> >
> > I'm curious to hear about other examples of personalized exhibits that
> > stood out for you in the last two decades.  I have examples from The
> Tech,
> > the Museum of Science and Industry, and the Chicago Children's Museum.
> > Expedition Health done by Jeff Kennedy and the Denver Museum of Nature
> and
> > Science is a major one recently, and the U.S. Holocaust Museum and the LA
> > Museum of Tolerance from farther back, and the Sony center in NYC even
> > earlier. Am I missing any seminal works? (We could broaden the definition
> > of personalizing, of course, to include just about every health exhibit
> and
> > every exhibit where you make something to take home...)
> >
> > Would love to hear from you on this listserv or at
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> > Thanks!
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> >> customize the science center/museum visit to each visitor. For example,
> >> this might include tagging individuals as they move through the center,
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