Dear Colin,

you might also find useful:

Dierking, L. D. and Falk, J. H. 1998. 'Audience and Accessibility', in A.
Mintz and S. Thomas (eds) The Virtual and The Real: Uses of Multimedia in
Museums. Washington, DC: American Association of Museums, 57-70.

Economou, M. 1998. 'Evaluating Multimedia', Museum Practice December (9),
38-40

(An expanded version of this which I wrote in 1996 for the Multimedia
working group is available on the web:
'Evaluation' in Jan van der Starre, Ben Davis, and Jennifer Trant (eds)
Introduction to Multimedia in Museums, Multimedia Working Group, Committee
on Documentation (CIDOC), International Council of Museums (ICOM)
http://www.rkd.nl/pblctns/mmwg/10-eval.htm)

Economou, M. 1999. 'The evaluation of museum multimedia applications:
lessons from research', Journal of Museum Management & Curatorship 17(2),
173-187.
(which is based on the findings of a study I did for my DPhil evaluating a
multimedia program in an exhibition in Oxford in 1995; this included the
evaluation of learning)

Heinecke, A. M. 1995. 'Evaluation of Hypermedia Systems in Museums', in D.
Bearman (ed.) Multimedia Computing and Museums, vol. 1. ICHIM '95/MCN '95
(1), (Conf. Proceedings). Pittsburgh, PA: Archives & Museum Informatics,
67-78.

and some of the more recent ICHIM papers, as was mentioned in another email.
Some of the papers are provided online at the ICHIM website
(www.archimuse.com)

Serrell, B. and Raphling, B. 1992. 'Computers on the Exhibit Floor', Curator
35 (3), 181-189.


The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) in Washington, DC has a
site on 'Outcome Based Evaluation', which offers an overview of this type of
evaluation with other resources and links
http://www.imls.gov/grants/current/crnt_obe.htm.

Professor Bill Trochim's Center for Social Research Methods
http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/ at Cornell University and the American
Evaluation Association http://www.eval.org/ websites offer useful
information on evaluation and social science research methods.

best,

maria

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Lecturer, Art Gallery and Museum Studies
School of Art History & Archaeology
The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL

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From: "Hynson, Colin" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 9:43 AM
Subject: Evaluating multimedia


Does anybody know of any studies done into the evaluation of multimedia
or computer interactives on museum galleries?

I am particularly interested in anything on evaluating learning.

Many thanks

Colin Hynson
Education Officer
Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service