Programme
Thursday 26th of May
8.30 - Registration opens
10.00 - IMA Workshop: Irish Museums & Technology: Ideals & Realities. Chair: Paul Doyle (IMA)
Speakers: Eoin Kilfeather & Mark Maguire (“Decipher” project), Jennifer McCrea (Fota House and Irish Heritage Trust), Paul Savage (Zolk-C).
10.00 - 12.30 Other delegates are welcome to a free tour of the Hunt Museum in Limerick City Centre (Bus no. 2 and 8 connect Limerick City to the University)
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch & Meet & Greet
14.00 - Official Opening of the conference: Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Vice President Research, University of Limerick
14.30 - Paper Session 1. Chair: Dagny Stuedahl (University of Oslo)
14.30-14.50: Jenny Kidd, Irida Ntalla, William Lyons (UK) “Sensing Interactivity in the Social Museum”
14.50-15.10: Rachel Charlotte Smith, Ole Sejer Iversen & Christian Dindler (Denmark) "Digital Natives: Creating Emergent Exhibitions through Digital Technologies"
15.10-15.30: Tom Flint, Phil Turner (UK) “The Role of Appropriation in the Design of Engaging Artefacts”
15.30 - Coffee Break
15.45 - Paper Session 2. Chair: Luigina Ciolfi (University of Limerick)
15.45-16.05: Christophe Bortolaso, Cédric Bach, Francis Duranthon, Emmanuel Dubois (France) “Co-Design of Interactive Museographic Exhibits: the MIME Case Study”
16.05-16.25: Eva Hornecker, Emma Nicol (UK) “Towards the Wild: Evaluating museum installations in semi-realistic situations”
16.25-16.45: Ferhat Şen, Lily Díaz (Finland) “Historical Orchestra: An interactive audio/visual cultural experience”
16.45-17.05: Mark Leslie (Ireland) “Applying Basic Design Principles to Technology in Museums”
17.05 - End
18.50 - Evening Social Event at Thomond Park Stadium, Limerick City:
Welcome by the Mayor of Limerick, Cllr Maria Byrne
Tour of the Museum of Rugby and Banquet
Live music with "Flip Side" (jazz duo)
Bus leaves UL at 18.20 and returns approximately at 23.00
Friday 27th of May
8.30- Registration
9.10 - Paper Session 3. Chair: Halina Gottlieb (Interactive Institute, Stockholm)
09.10-09.30: Maria Economou & Niki Meintani (Greece), “Promising beginnings? Evaluating museum mobile phone apps”
09.30-09.50: Takumi Toyama, Thomas Kieninger, Faisal Shafait, Andreas Dengel (Germany) “Museum Guide 2.0 – An Eye-Tracking based Personal Assistant for Museums and Exhibits”
09.50-10.10: Alan Miller Lisa Dow, Colin Alison and Sarah Kennedy (UK) “Exploring Exhibitions in Virtual Worlds”
10.10-10.30: Thies Pfeiffer, Christian Liguda, Ipke Wachsmuth, Stefan Stein (Germany) “Living with a Virtual Agent: Seven Years with an Embodied Conversational Agent at the Heinz Nixdorf Museums Forum”
10.30-10.45: Innovation Forum Pecha Kucha, IxDA, Chairs: Marc McLoughlin and Gabriela Avram, IxDA Limerick
10.45 - Coffee Break & Innovation Forum
11.20 - Paper Session 4. Chair: Dominique Bouchard (The Hunt Museum)
11.20-11.40: Niall Smith, Alan Giltinan, Paul Walsh, Clair McSweeney, Frances McCarthy (Ireland) “Touching the Stars”
11.40-12.00: Dagny Stuedahl, Ole Smørdal (Norway) "Re-thinking Museum Assemblies”
12.00-12.20: Katarzyna Warpas (UK) “Museum as a playground? – Designing digitally enhanced play spaces to improve children's engagement with museum objects”
12.20-12. 40: Anne Britt Ylvisåker (Norway) “Digitizing the valuable - value the digitized”
12.45 - Lunch & Innovation Forum
14.00 - Paper Session 5. Chair: Eva Hornecker (University of Strathclyde)
14.00-14.20: Hyunsook Youn, Marian Stewart Titus (USA) “Mobile Phones in U.S. Science Museums: A Report of an Exploratory Survey”
14.20-14.40: Francesco Bellotti, Riccardo Berta, Alessandro De Gloria, Massimiliano Margarone (Italy) “LodeStar: a mobile device to enhance visually impaired people experience of cultural and naturalistic places”
14.40-15.00: Deborah Tumbull, Matthew Connell, Ernest Edmonds(Australia) “Prototype places: curating practice-based research in a museum context"
15.00-15.20: Bee Chin Ng, Fabrizio Galli, Halina Gottlieb (Singapore) “Combining Language and Mythology: an interactive installation to preserve intangible heritage”
15.20 - Coffee Break & Innovation Forum
15.50 - Paper Session 6. Chair: Trevor Hogan (Cork Institute of Technology)
15.50-16.10: Florian Windhager, Eva Mayr (Austria) “Re-Positioning Exhibits in Time and Space”
16.10-16.30: Pille Runnel, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt (Estonia) “Usability Components of Estonian National Museum’s participatory actions”
16.30-16.50: Spyros Vosinakis, Ioannis Xenakis (Greece) “A Virtual World Installation in an Art Exhibition: Providing a Shared Interaction Space for Local and Remote Visitors”
16.50 - Final Remarks
17.00 - Conference Ends
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