ipads Archives - Digital Urban https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/category/ipads/ Data, Cities, IoT, Writing, Music and Making Things Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:51:00 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://www.digitalurban.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Dulogosm-1.png ipads Archives - Digital Urban https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/category/ipads/ 32 32 Can a Dodo Tweet?: QRator Museum iPad App Preview https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2011/03/14/can-dodo-tweet-qrator-museum-ipad-app/ https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2011/03/14/can-dodo-tweet-qrator-museum-ipad-app/#comments Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:51:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=881 UCL’s Grant Museum of Zoology is reopening on 15 March, allowing some of the rarest extinct animal specimens in the world to be displayed for the first time, but in...

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]]> UCL’s Grant Museum of Zoology is reopening on 15 March, allowing some of the rarest extinct animal specimens in the world to be displayed for the first time, but in contrast to the more traditional museum outlook, the new Grant has integrated iPads, QRCodes and twitter into the mix via a project known as QRator.



QRator is an iPad-based system that allows everyone to be a curator and share their views on an exhibition. Visitors can examine an object before leaving their thoughts about it on an iPad to create a digital, ‘living’ label that subsequent visitors can read and respond to. By downloading a free application to an iPhone or android phone, visitors will be able to see rolling updates to the digital label after they leave the museum, or via twitter.

We are horribly biased on this but we think the mix of iPads/QRCodes and Twitter represents a new step in models for interaction in museums. The iPads pull in unique twitter tags from the outside world, allowing the museum objects to be followed and conversations to take place beyond the museums walls.

QRator was developed with the Centre for Digital Humanities (thanks to Claire Ross), UCL Museums and in-house here in CASA (thanks to Steven Gray) with the idea behind digital signage linked to our wider project Tales of Things. The system goes live in beta tomorrow before a formal launch Thursday, we will have full details soon….

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]]> https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2011/03/14/can-dodo-tweet-qrator-museum-ipad-app/feed/ 3 Sneak Peak: QRCodes and iPads in The Grant Museum https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2011/03/03/sneak-peak-qrcodes-and-ipads-in-grant/ https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2011/03/03/sneak-peak-qrcodes-and-ipads-in-grant/#comments Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:03:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=889 Here at University College London, the Grant Museum of Zoology, which contains some of the rarest extinct animal specimens in the world, is to re-open on 15 March, 2011 after...

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]]> Here at University College London, the Grant Museum of Zoology, which contains some of the rarest extinct animal specimens in the world, is to re-open on 15 March, 2011 after an eight-month renovation and moving period. Over the past few months we have been working here in CASA with the nice people over at the Centre for Digital Humanities and UCL Museums to build interactive signage for the exhibits.
Based around the ‘Tales of Things‘ technology, each artefact has a QRCode and Twitter Hash Tag allowing digital conversations to be carried out both inside and outside of the museum space. In typical ‘sneak peak’ photo mode, below is a look at one of the iPad mounts:

We are not sure why all first look photos are blurred, but such is the case. The project, known as ‘QRator’ is placing 10 iPads around the museum to explore new models for public engagement and informal learning in museums using handheld mobile devices and new interactive digital labels. The aim is to enable the public to collaborate and discuss museum concepts and object interpretation with museum curators, and academic researchers.
Wired UK has a good article on the Museum with a mention of QRCodes, for a more in depth view of such matters head over to Digital Nerdosaurus.
We will have much more on QRator over coming weeks….

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