{"id":340,"date":"2012-02-08T19:50:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T03:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/?p=340"},"modified":"2012-02-08T19:51:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T03:51:12","slug":"designing-interactives-for-adults-from-museum-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/2012\/02\/08\/designing-interactives-for-adults-from-museum-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Designing Interactives For Adults (From Museum 2.0)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Museum 2.0\" href=\"http:\/\/museumtwo.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/designing-interactives-for-adults-put.html\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s a great piece by Nina Simon<\/a> regarding adult participation in interactive experiences.\u00a0 We carry certain cultural assumptions about what adults do in a museum or science center.\u00a0 These assumptions influence our behavior even when they don&#8217;t reflect our motivations and interests.<br \/>\n<em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;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. But I don&#8217;t think that theory holds up. Major  research studies by the NEA and others demonstrate that adults well into  their 60s are highly motivated to participate actively with cultural  experiences. They&#8217;re playing instruments, painting pictures, and cooking  gourmet meals in record numbers. They&#8217;re going to trivia night. They&#8217;re  playing video games. It&#8217;s possible&#8211;likely even&#8211;that today&#8217;s adults  are more motivated by interactive experiences than generations past.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On a somewhat-related note, we spent some time in the Visitor Center this morning to work on the placement of the wave tanks.\u00a0 Large sheets of butcher paper stood in for the tanks, and I borrowed one of our wheelchairs to get an initial feel for the accessibility of the layout.\u00a0 We should have more pictures of this process soon.<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a great piece by Nina Simon regarding adult participation in interactive experiences.\u00a0 We carry certain cultural assumptions about what adults do in a museum or science center.\u00a0 These assumptions influence our behavior even when they don&#8217;t reflect our motivations and interests. &#8220;The common museum knowledge on this issue is that adults are timid, that&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/2012\/02\/08\/designing-interactives-for-adults-from-museum-2-0\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3352,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[123,95511,95490],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-engagement","tag-museum-2-0","tag-wave-tank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}