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Designing Interactives for Adults: Put Down the Dayglow

Museum 2.0

The common museum knowledge on this issue is that adults are timid, that we have lost some of the wonder, impulsiveness, and active creativity of childhood days. If a four-year-old can articulate the design message of an exhibit and respond to it accordingly, surely an adult can as well. But I don't think that theory holds up.

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Curated Collaborative Filtering: Listening to Pandora

Museum 2.0

You enter a seed artist or song (or several) and Pandora starts playing music that it interprets as related in some way to your selections. It doesn’t just group artists together and play music by similar musicians. Could I have articulated that at the start? Turns out that I enjoy songs with “extensive vamping.” From experts!