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Touch: Near Field Communications Blog
I found an interesting blog today: Touch. According to the about: Touch is a research project looking at the intersections between the digital and the physical. Its aim is to explore and develop new...
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Building a Multiple iPod Charger
One of the cool things we’re doing for the Walker’s upcoming exhibition Picasso and American Art is significantly increasing our iPod audio tour capacity. For the exhibit we were able to get 25 iPod...
View ArticlePicasso iPod Audio Tour Post Mortem
So the Picasso exhibition is over and we learned a lot about mass iPod audio tours. The first lesson, they’re very popular! We’ve had iPods for our permanent collection for a while now, but we never...
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Picasso iPods part 2
Brent beat me to the punch with his Picasso iPod post. Much to learn from this project which gave us an opportunity to compare the same tour on iPods and cell phones. I was waiting for the phone stats...
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Counting People in Galleries with iPod Touch
Here’s an interesting problem that came across my desk several weeks ago. Lets say you want to know exactly how many people are in a gallery at any given time. How do you do it? There are expensive...
View ArticleFrida Kahlo multimedia guide update
Visitors to the Walker’s Frida Kahlo exhibition have the option of renting a multimedia guide ($6, $5 Walker members). The tour was produced by Antenna Audio whose staff are providing bi-weekly reports...
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Working with iTunes U
Walker Art Center iTunes U page. Several weeks ago, Robin posted about the Walker Channel on iTunes U. I am going to follow up on her initial announcement with a more info about the process of...
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Building the Walker’s mobile website with Google AppEngine, part 1
Over the summer, our department made a small but significant policy change. We decided to take a cue from Google’s 20% time philosophy and spend one day a week working on a Walker-related project of...
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Building the Walker’s mobile site, part 2 — google analytics without javascript
As I mentioned in my last post on our mobile site, one of the key features for our site was making sure that we don’t use any javascript unless absolutely necessary. If you use Google Analytics (GA)...
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Setting up smartphone emulators for testing mobile websites
While developing the Walker’s mobile site, I needed to test the site in a number of browsers to ensure compatibility. If you thought testing a regular website was a pain, mobile is an order of...
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