Creating Museum Media for Everyone

为每个人创建博物馆媒体

• 批准号: 1114549
• 负责人: Christine Reich
• 金额: $ 70万
• 依托单位: Museum of Science
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-01-01 至 2014-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1114549&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Creating; Museum; Media; Everyone

This proof-of-concept project is a collaboration of the Museum of Science in Boston, WGBH's National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) and Ideum. The project will demonstrate that the project team can design and develop digital interactive museum exhibit devices that work for visitors who have a wide range of disabilities. The outcome will be one "exemplar" exhibit based on an exhibit scenario where museum visitors learn STEM concepts by manipulating and analyzing real data. The project will also develop and test the efficacy of a prototype Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Toolkit that will help other museum professionals implement the digital interactive strategies. In addition, the project will produce a white paper on the specific exemplar and a research paper with guidelines for digital interactive exhibits in museum. The project uses an innovative workshop approach that brings together individuals from a diverse range of fields to develop the digital interactive strategies. After developing the "exemplar" exhibit, the team will develop the DIY Toolkit and test the efficacy of the Toolkit in museums that do not have the same level of exhibit development resources as larger institutions. The the project's evaluation will not only determine if the exemplar works well with a wide range of people with disabilities, but also determine the cost-effectiveness and efficacy of the workshop strategy and the ability of other museums to use the DIY toolkit.If successful, this project will attend to an area of high need in the informal science education (ISE) museum exhibit community and provide a resource that will serve a wide range of ISE institutions. If the project evaluation outcomes are positive, the project will lead to a larger effort to develop more exemplar exhibits based on different scenarios and an expansion of the DIY Toolkit.

这个概念验证项目是波士顿科学博物馆、WGBH的国家无障碍媒体中心（NCAM）和Ideum的合作项目。该项目将证明项目团队可以设计和开发适合各种残疾游客的数字互动博物馆展览设备。结果将是一个基于展览场景的“范例”展览，博物馆参观者通过操纵和分析真实数据来学习STEM概念。该项目还将开发和测试自己动手（DIY）工具包原型的有效性，该工具包将帮助其他博物馆专业人员实施数字互动策略。此外，该计划将制作一份有关具体范例的白皮书，以及一份载有博物馆数码互动展览指引的研究报告。该项目采用了一种创新的研讨会方式，将来自不同领域的个人聚集在一起，制定数字互动策略。在完成“范例”展览后，团队将开发DIY工具包，并在没有大型机构展览开发资源的博物馆中测试工具包的效果。该项目的评估不仅将决定范例是否适用于广泛的残疾人，还将决定工作坊策略的成本效益和效果，以及其他博物馆使用DIY工具包的能力。如果成功，该项目将关注非正式科学教育（ISE）博物馆展览社区的高需求领域，并为广泛的ISE机构提供资源。如果项目评估结果是积极的，该项目将导致更大的努力，开发更多的基于不同场景的示范展品和扩展DIY工具包。