We exhibited at the Museums Aotearoa Conference in New Plymouth in April. Museums Aotearoa members include the museums and galleries of New Zealand, museum staff members and service providers like The Complete Package Ltd. The conference theme was, “Articulating our relevance and value in changing and challenging times.”Tony Ellwood, Director of Queensland Art Gallery, spoke of us being in times of unprecedented innovation and that museums should react to technological innovation.
I made a presentation, “ Recent Developments In Digital Media” during the “Tech Heads” Seminar on Friday morning. My presentation focused on new touch technologies, especially multi-touch. I took the opportunity to promote the iPad as a museum interactive display. I suggested that the iPad would be great in museums interactive display exhibits because:
• It is ideal as an interactive multi-touch system due to it’s powerful graphics system
• Nearly 10” multi-touch screen makes it great to fit in small spaces
• A new Mac OS is to be released soon that will allow multi-tasking making it easier to create content for use in public spaces.
• Mounting the iPad can be done by us in such a way to secure the units
• Additional 32”- 40” displays can be added so other visitors can see what the iPad user is viewing.
The iPad is a low cost system that compares very well to existing touch systems.
I also spoke at Tech Heads of our proposed large multi-user, multi-touch video wall we are planning with the iQRite touch frame. We had a lot of interest at the Museums Aotearoa conference and exhhibition with our new product. We expect to get the first one set up in a New Zealand museum soon.
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