{"id":710,"date":"2016-02-16T12:03:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T20:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/?p=710"},"modified":"2016-02-16T12:03:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T20:03:29","slug":"week-7-smartphone-headset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/2016\/02\/16\/week-7-smartphone-headset\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 7: Smartphone Headset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com\/paper\/a-smartphone-headset-for-augmented-reality-experiences-in-museums\/\">Smartphone headset<\/a> presented by Daniela De Angeli and Eamonn O\u2019Neill from the University of Bath seeks to engage the visitor through technology by augmenting the visitor\u2019s museum experience.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_712\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-712\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-712 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/headset2-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"headset2\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-712\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How the headset actually works<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The headset works by using the visitor\u2019s own phone to record and project information onto a transparency in front of the visitor\u2019s eyes.\u00a0 Thus far, the researchers have run a small study testing lighting, color and image blurriness.\u00a0 When the headset is less a prototype, they plan on testing it in National Trust\u2019s sites.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are possibilities of displaying an infinite amount of information that the visitor would not originally have had. Curating would certainly be affected.\u00a0 The headset impairs peripheral vision and curators may have to edit the exhibitions to allow the headsets to be really effective.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_711\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-711\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-711 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/headset-300x155.jpg\" alt=\"headset\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-711\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Smartphone headset prototype<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The pros for a headset over a purely phone based augmentation was that holding the phone is limiting.\u00a0 Having the phone in your hand was a distraction in it of itself.<\/p>\n<p>I would argue that having the headset on itself is a distraction as it would take a while for visitor\u2019s to become adjusted to the having something cover and interfere with their vision.\u00a0 It would certainly take some time, at least, for the novelty of the headset to wear off. Certainly it would be an initial distraction to the visitor but I see there being a lot of potential to what could be done with the projections.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Smartphone headset presented by Daniela De Angeli and Eamonn O\u2019Neill from the University of Bath seeks to engage the visitor through technology by augmenting the visitor\u2019s museum experience. The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/2016\/02\/16\/week-7-smartphone-headset\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Week 7: Smartphone Headset&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}