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Loic Tallon & Kevin Walker put out an edited book a while back that covered
the topic, although I don't know how exclusive it was to hands-on museums
(I recall there being a chapter or two about art museums):
Tallon, L. and Walker, K. (Eds). *Digital Technologies and the Museum
Experience: Handheld Guides and Other Media*. Altamira Press, Lanham, MD,
2008.
The Liberty Science Center was experimenting with mobiles as well, some of
which I think might have been captured in this book (I have not read it so
I can't say for sure):
http://museumsetc.com/products/technology-and-creativity
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I experimented with using mobiles as interfaces to shared exhibits at a
hands-on science center, where I specifically was looking at how much the
handheld "hogged" the attention of users (in sum: it did capture their
attention, but users were pretty good about shifting attention between the
device and the exhibit):
http://www.cs.uic.edu/~llyons/papers/cscl_09.pdf
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...but in my case the visitors were digitally, not physically, manipulating
the exhibit. I believe Sherry did look at how visitors juggled (sometimes
literally) mobiles and physical hands-on exhibits in one or more of her
papers:
Hsi, S. I-Guides in Progress: Two Prototype Applications for Museum
Educators and Visitors Using Wireless Technologies to Support Informal
Science Learning. In *Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on
Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education (WMTE’04)*, IEEE Computer
Society (2004).
Hsi, S. A study of user experiences mediated by nomadic web content in a
museum. *Journal of Computer Assisted Learning 19*, 3 (2003), 308-319.
Hope that helps; would love to hear what others know on this topic!
- Leilah Lyons
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Paul Siboroski <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
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> Can someone point me to the latest surveys, data reports on the topic of
> usefulness (or interference) of using handheld devices in Science Centers?
> I know of the Exploratorium report dated 2003 by Sherry Hsi on the topic.
>
> What is the latest on reasonable expectations of using this technology?
> Does it ultimately interfere with the hands-on experience? Do visitors
> expect us to have that option when they come?
>
> Thanks!
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> Paul M. Siboroski
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