Explorations for DIY Approaches for Cultural Heritage Professionals through Digital Technology at INTERACT2013
Laura Maye, who is involved in the meSch consortium as a PhD student at the University of Limerick, was amongst the presenters at the Doctoral Consortium collocated with the INTERACT2013 conference earlier this month. During her presentation, Laura explored the theme of Do-It-Yourself approaches for cultural heritage professionals [...]
Reusing Existing Digital Content
This summer Work Package 5 (WP5) completed its first deliverable: “Analysis of existing data sources and services”. WP5 focuses on the meSch software and physical infrastructure and integration of the different components. The first task of this work package was to identify existing data sources and services that [...]
Seal Hunting in the Museum, Testing a meSch Prototype
Can a magnifying glass add a dimension to a museum visit? The Waag Society, one of the partners in the meSch project, created a prototype of an interactive magnifying glass: a wooden frame with a smartphone hidden in it. It aims at wayfinding on the one hand and [...]
What Do Heritage Professionals Want? Thoughts on the First meSch Co-Design Workshop
Co-design workshops will help shape the products and tools that are being developed as part of the meSch project. Through these workshops the end-users of the meSch toolkit, be they heritage professionals or visitors, are given an opportunity to take part in the design process, creating a product [...]
An Update About the meSch Server Architecture
Most blog posts up to now have been focused on conceptual and design issues around realizing tangible interaction with (digital) heritage artifacts in smart exhibitions. Of a completely different nature (but nevertheless very much intertwined with the other research in the project) is the work done in the [...]
Complete Website Makeover
The meSch website has had a complete makeover. The newly designed website includes updated information about the project, the people involved, the generated output, an events calendar and blog posts about relevant activities within the project.
How Should DIY Technologies Serve Cultural Heritage Professionals?
This question was addressed by meSch at the ‘EUD for Supporting Sustainability in Maker Communities’ workshop held in the IT University of Copenhagen on the 10th of June 2013. The workshop was collocated with the fourth International Symposium in End User Development (IS-EUD). Through End User Development (EUD) [...]
First Co-Design Workshop: Taking Concept Ideas To The Next Level
From 5 to 7 June the first co-design workshop of the meSch project took place in Amsterdam and The Hague. Teams of almost all partners in the consortium met to catch up after the kick-off meeting in Sheffield in February, while new members of the project were introduced [...]
Making the Social Tangible: “Explorations in Social Interaction Design” at CHI 2013
meSch partners Luigina Ciolfi and Eva Hornecker were among the organisers of the workshop “Explorations in Social Interaction Design” which was held on April 28th as part of CHI 2013, the 30th conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, held in Paris (France). The theme of the workshop [...]
‘The Brave New World of 3D Printing’
‘The Brave New World of 3D Printing’ was a seminar illustrating the implications 3D printing has on the crafts sector. The aim of the seminar was to introduce the concept of Do-It-Yourself making through 3D printing. This is a very relevant theme for meSch, as meSch aims to [...]
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