2009 International Handheld Guide Survey
Please take 10 minutes to complete this online survey into the use, challenges + future of mobile interpretation in museums. See http://tr.im/ALUg
A few weeks ago, together with Learning Times – who hosted the 2009 Handheld Conference Online last June – we launched an online survey which explored the museum community’s views on mobile interpretation.
With mobile interpretation becoming an increasingly ‘hot-topic’ for museums, and with the medium becoming evermore powerful/ubiquitous, we thought it would be interesting to identify:
1. why museums use (or don’t use) handheld guides
2. the challenges relating to their use
3. how they saw the medium’s future
4. and how to improve knowledge share in this field
A couple of weeks in and we’ve had just over 100 survey responses so far, and the findings are already pretty fascinating / telling – we think the community will find them interesting. (At the close of the project, the findings, together with the raw data, will be published online so as to enable anyone to collaborate in interpreting the data).
But in the meantime, if you’ve not taken the survey yet, it would be fantastic if you could please find 10 minutes to do so. Obviously, the more responses we get, the more interesting the results.
The survey is ‘open’ to all museums, whether you use handheld guides and/or are interested in doing so or not. And we’re especially keen that the views of small and mid-size museums are fully represented…
You can find the survey online @ http://tr.im/ALUg
Thank you, and we look forward to sharing the results towards the end of the year.