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CMME Workshop Discussion: Applying Universal Design to Museum Experiences
The Creating Museum Media for Everyone (CMME) workshop brought experts from many different fields together to consider how to create accessible digital interactives for museums. Much of the week-long CMME workshop was spent creating prototypes for digital interactives that focused … Continue reading
CMME: Haptic Paths Not Taken
Post written by: Marta Beyer, Peter Moriarty, Emily O’Hara, Robert Rayle Going into the Creating Museum Media for Everyone (CMME) project, our team had several key criteria in mind when experimenting with the creation of a haptic exhibit: the exhibit … Continue reading
CMME: Haptic Possibilities in Exhibits
Post written by: Marta Beyer, Peter Moriarty, Emily O’Hara, and Robert Rayle Through the Creating Museum Media for Everyone (CMME) grant, the Museum of Science and several other institutions set out to explore various possibilities for developing accessible digital museum … Continue reading
Additional Museum Accessibility Resources
Building off of an earlier blog post about museum accessibility resources, we wanted to highlight another group of relevant publications and websites. The resources below are useful for anyone creating or evaluating inclusive museum experiences. Some come from non-profits and … Continue reading
CMME Workshop Part 1: Envisioning the Future of Accessible Digital Interactives
To launch Creating Museum Media for Everyone (CMME), a NSF grant which Jim mentioned in an earlier post, the Museum of Science, Boston held two back-to-back workshops in May 2012. Both the Possibilities and Concept Development Workshop were designed to … Continue reading
CMME Workshop Part 2: Developing Innovative Accessible Digital Interactives
Building off of ideas from CMME’s Possibilities Workshop, we moved into the second-half of the week and the Concept Development Workshop. This post describes what happened at this second, slightly smaller workshop and the innovative design approaches that participants created. … Continue reading