[Events] Interaction Design Talk Thursday afternoon "What makes for an engaging museum installation?"

[Anne.Murphy]

REMINDER

The Interaction Design Talk Series organised by the Interaction Design Centre, Dept. of CSIS, continues this 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

Please also note that Dr. Hornecker will give an informal talk at the Interaction Design Association (IxDA Limerick) monthly meeting on Wednesday evening (14th of April), 7PM, at the Absolute Hotel in Limerick City centre
For more information on this event, please contact marc.mcloughlin at ul.ie

Regards

Lui
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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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