Digital Technologies and the Museum Experience

Loïc Tallon has worked as an independent researcher and as a project manager and new media consultant with Cultural Innovations, a leading international museum consultancy. Kevin Walker has worked in and with museums since 1996, including five years as senior software designer for exhibitions at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

• Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction: Mobile, Digital, and Personal Part 3 Part I. Defining the Context: Three Perspectives Chapter 4 Chapter 1. The Exploded Museum Chapter 5 Chapter 2. Learning with Digital Technologies Chapter 6 Chapter 3. Designing Mobile Digital Experiences Part 7 Part II. Delivering Potential Chapter 8 Chapter 4. Audibly Engaged: Talking the Walk Chapter 9 Chapter 5. Mobile Multimedia: Reflections from Ten Years of Practice Chapter 10 Chapter 6. Improving Visitor Access Chapter 11 Chapter 7. Structuring Visitor Participation Chapter 12 Chapter 8. Designing for Mobile Visitor Engagement Chapter 13 Chapter 9. Cross-Context Learning Chapter 14 Chapter 10. Interactive Adventures Chapter 15 Chapter 11. Afterword: The Future in our Hands? Putting Potential into Practice

This book makes an important and timely contribution to the field of museum studies. For museum practitioners, it provides a useful reference work on the application of digital interpretive technologies. Along with practical and technical information, there is much to stimulate thought about how such technologies encourage and empower the user. The book wisely ends on a cautionary note: to be successful in the longer term 'new museum media always need to harmonize with existing practice.'