One use that people haven't mentioned yet is using txting technology for
audiences to feedback to / dialogue with institutions, rather than just as a
channel for delivering content one way.
Arguably txting isn't a great way of doing catch-all interpretation
analagous to gallery labels, as txts are very short. But what if the
audience could feed their questions to curators via txt and have these
responded to, perhaps after their gallery visit? (presumably contributing to
a web archive of FAQs, or changing labels in the displays "Top 10 questions
people have asked about this item...")
I don't know of anyone who's done it, but it does seem a more natural use of
the technology, which is, after all, a dialogue tool rather than designed
for broadcasting of content.
Tim
-----Original Message-----
From: Roy McKeown
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Sent: 12/03/04 09:50
Subject: Re: Using text messages to mobile phones to interpret exhibition
And yet...
Don't forget that many PDAs are web-enabled and PDA technology is set to
merge with mobile phones (though not quite yet). The main difference is
that
normally someone sends you a txt but you have to fetch a web page.
Roy McKeown
Manager
Petrie Project
tel. 020 7679 2395
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