Most museums these days have implemented digital applications or other technologies that are developed to enhance the museum experience by offering information about the museum and its collection. On my most recent museum visit to The Broad, I was presented with their app that can be used alongside one\u2019s visit. Though this app was extensive, interactive, well designed, and easy to use, I found myself only using it for a short period of time. An important part of my museum going experience is not only engaging with the artwork, but watching how others engage with it as well. People watching is just as integral to my museum going experience as the artwork itself, and app\u2019s like The Broad\u2019s require a degree of attention and isolation that takes you out of that experience. I found it really refreshing to hear that museums are conscious of how the sociality of a visit can affect a visitor\u2019s museum experience. In \u201cPersonal and Social? Designing personalized experiences for groups in museums,\u201d conducted by Lesley Fosh, Katharina Lorenz, Steve Benford, and Boriana Koleva of the University of Nottingham; the authors explore designing \u201cinteractive visiting experience[s] that lets visitors create interpretations of exhibits for their friends and loved ones that they then experience together.\u201d The final \u201cinteractive visiting experience\u201d designed required visitors to choose for their loved ones a set of objects, a piece of music, instructions on how to engage with the objects, and a portion of text for context. By allowing visitors to \u201cgift\u201d their loved ones a personally curated experience, I believe that this new approach definitely makes that experience more personal, intimate, and social. I think that their new design template is a great start in the right direction towards bridging the gap between the often impersonality of technology and the personal experiences museum visitors, like myself, wish to have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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