MIST: Museum Interfaces, Spaces, Technologies

博物馆是我们文化遗产的宝库。他们的角色往往是相互矛盾的，既要保护我们的遗产，又要提供访问这些遗产的机会。MIST网络将通过讨论博物馆是什么样的地方，它们可以成为什么样的地方，以及空间和技术的新思维如何改变它们可以提供的访问方式，来探索这两种角色。我们将定义并开始开发新技术和嵌入技术的新方法，使博物馆参观（包括真实参观和通过网站进行的虚拟参观）更有意义和令人兴奋。这些技术很可能包括使短暂的数字表示有形的物理接口；如何利用网络和从博物馆取来的物品，将博物馆的参观融入参观者的生活，为他们提供参观前的信息和参观后的记忆辅助和进一步发展的途径；以及如何将博物馆空间与外界的人和空间联系起来。

Museums are the repositories of our cultural heritage. They have the often contradictory roles of protecting our heritage and providing access to it. The MIST network will explore these two roles by discussing what kind of places museums are, what they could be and how new thinking on space and technology could transform the kind of access they can provide. We will the define and begin the development of new technologies and new ways of embedding technologies that will make museum visits (both real visits and virtual visits via the website) more meaningful and exciting. These technologies may well include physical interfaces that make ephemeral digital representations tangible; ways of using the web and objects taken from the museums to embed a museum visit within the life of a visitor, providing him or her with pre-visit information and post-visit memory aids and routes to further development; and ways of connecting the museum space with people and spaces outside.