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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. We're showing an installation by artist Shelby Graham which features beautiful photographs of butterflies juxtaposed with images of the bombing of Japan in World War II.

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PostSecret: Lessons in Meaningful User-Generated Content

Museum 2.0

Each secret can be a regret, hope, funny experience, unseen kindness, fantasy, belief, fear, betrayal, erotic desire, feeling, confession, or childhood humiliation. Please put your complete secret and image on one side of the postcard. On the back, they said, You are invited to anonymously contribute your secrets to PostSecret.

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Mobile Storytelling: An Evolving Story

NTEN

Flipboard is an iPad app that tries to do that, by providing an illusion of priority through a tactful manipulation of layout, font sizes and images. You can select from various past dates when the streetview camera captured the image. Interactive artist, Jonathan Harris is an amazing story teller. " Our Collective Stories.

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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. Pandora uses collaborative filtering to create a real-time radio station for you based on your preferences.