[Events] Interaction Design Talk, 15th April, 2.30PM KB118: "What makes for an engaging museum installation?"

[Marc Mcloughlin]

The Interaction Design Talk Series organised by the Interaction Design  
Centre, Dept. of CSIS, continues next week, Thursday April 15th

Talk: "What makes for an engaging museum installation?"

Speaker: Dr. Eva Hornecker, University of Strathclyde, UK

When: Thursday, 15th of April: 2.30-3.30PM
Where: University of Limerick, Room: KB118 (Kemmy Business School  
Building)

Abstract: Dr. Hornecker will discuss findings and observations from  
two studies of museum installations, focussing on aspects that  
contribute to their success in terms of visitor engagement and the  
social 'user experience'. The talk is based on the mixed-method  
evaluation of a long-term exhibition containing about 20 interactive  
stations in the Technical Museum in Vienna, and an observational study  
in the Museum of Natural History in Berlin, which has recently been  
reopened and features several innovative installations by the media  
design company art+com. Her observations highlight how social  
interactions around the installation can enrich the actual  
installation (and form an essential part of the experience), the role  
of physicality and physical setup, and how contextual embedding can  
support indexing between contents of an installation and the physical  
exhibition.

About the Speaker: Eva Hornecker is a Lecturer in the Department of  
Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Strathclyde in  
Glasgow, UK. In previous lives, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow  
at the Pervasive Interaction Lab at the Open University and the  
University of Sussex (working on the Equator project) in the UK, and  
an Acting Lecturer at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and  
at the TU Vienna in Austria. She wrote a PhD thesis on 'Tangible  
Interfaces as a medium for collaboration support' at the University of  
Bremen. Her research interests concern multimodal, tangible and  
embodied interaction, CSCW, user research, design methods, and  
qualitative research methods for understanding user interaction with  
'beyond the desktop' technologies.

Admission is free and all are welcome

For further information please contact: luigina.ciolfi at ul.ie



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Dr. Luigina Ciolfi
Course Director, B.Sc. Digital Media Design
Interaction Design Centre, ER1 005
Dept. of Computer Science & Information
Systems, University of Limerick, Ireland
Tel. +353 61 213530
Fax. +353 61 213484
Skype: luigina.ciolfi
web: http://www.idc.ul.ie


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