New Accessibility Feature Enhances Open Exhibits Experience

Posted on  January 6, 2015 by Stacy HasselbacherView all posts by Stacy Hasselbacher

Video tour of enhanced Solar System Exhibit Enhanced Solar System Exhibit Ideum (the lead organization of Open Exhibits) has made significant progress in multitouch accessibility in the process of developing three prototypes for the Creating Museum Media for Everyone (CMME) … Continue reading →

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CMME: Graph Paths Not Taken

Posted on  December 31, 2014 by Emily O'HaraView all posts by Emily O'Hara

Written by Emily O’Hara and Stephanie Iacovelli For the Museum of Science’s portion of the Creating Museum Media for Everyone project, we wanted to create an accessible interactive that featured graphed data.  The final exhibit component contains five scatter plot … Continue reading →

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CMME: Design Toolkit

Posted on  December 31, 2014 by Emily O'HaraView all posts by Emily O'Hara

Contributions from Malorie Landgreen, Emily O’Hara, Robert Rayle, Michael Horvath, and Beth Malandain This post includes the design specifications for the final exhibit we created as the Museum of Science’s portion of the Creating Museum Media for Everyone (CMME) project. … Continue reading →

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CMME: Tactile Paths not Taken

Posted on  October 15, 2014 by Emily O'HaraView all posts by Emily O'Hara

Written by Malorie Landgreen and Ben Jones  The Creating Museum Media for Everyone (CMME) team at the Museum of Science, Boston (MOS) explored many avenues to address our goal of making accessible digital interactive as useful as possible. While reading … Continue reading →

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CMME Final Exhibit Component

Posted on  September 30, 2014 by Emily O'HaraView all posts by Emily O'Hara

For the Creating Museum Media for Everyone (CMME) project, the team from the Museum of Science, Boston, aimed to develop a proof-of-concept exhibit component that used multisensory options to display data and whose components could be adapted into a basic … Continue reading →

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HCI+ISE Conference Proceedings Available Online

Posted on  October 8, 2013 by Nora GallerView all posts by Nora Galler

The proceedings of the HCI+ISE conference, held in June, are now available online. You can read the complete document in the Papers section of the Open Exhibits site or on ISSUU. An accessible PDF version is in the works. Special … Continue reading →

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Collection Viewer Paired with CollectiveAccess

Posted on  April 16, 2013 by Nora GallerView all posts by Nora Galler

The Open Exhibits Collection Viewer now has the ability to pull from collection data in CollectiveAccess collection management software. Catalog objects and metadata in CollectiveAccess are queried and pulled into the Collection Viewer interface for interactive browsing of museum or … Continue reading →

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