Creating Museum Media for Everyone

这个概念验证项目是由波士顿科学博物馆、WGBH的国家无障碍媒体中心(NCAM)和IDEUM合作完成的。该项目将展示项目团队可以设计和开发数字互动博物馆展示设备，为各种残疾的参观者服务。其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DIY工具包原型的效果，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，该项目还将编写一份关于具体样本的白皮书和一份关于博物馆数字互动展品指南的研究文件。该项目采用一种创新的研讨会方法，将来自不同领域的个人聚集在一起，以制定数字互动战略。在开发完《范例》展品后，团队将开发DIY工具包，并在没有与大型机构同等水平的展品开发资源的博物馆测试工具包的功效。该项目的评估不仅将决定样本是否适用于广泛的残疾人，还将决定研讨会战略的成本效益和效率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)博物馆展览界的高需求领域，并提供服务于广泛的ISE机构的资源。如果项目评估结果是积极的，该项目将导致更大的努力，根据不同的情况开发更多的示范展品，并扩大DIY工具包。

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.