4.3. Tablet Computing
Tablets serve as e-readers, photo and video repositories, web browsers, and game platforms with instant access to thousands of apps. Tablets present new opportunities to enhance in and out-of-gallery experiences in ways simply not possible with other devices. High-resolution screens allow users of tablets such as the iPad to easily share content with each other and pore over images and videos on the screen. Tablets are designed to be easily passed around, and their larger screen sizes lend themselves as excellent tools for small-group experiences. Tablets are excellent for docent tours in particular —and they are child-friendly. Built-in geolocation can help visitors with wayfinding and provide proximity-based links to content; large display areas and applications make the devices ideal for addressing issues of accessibility.
Visitors using the iPads in the exhibition, Brooklyn Museum
Tablets present museums with new avenues for interpretive and educational media that take
advantage of their large screens and gesture-based interfaces.
iPads as interpretative tools used by museum educators during group tours: the devices are mainly used by museum educators and docents in order to provide visitors with additional multimedia content that may facilitate fun, engagement and understanding. Multimedia resources are managed by docents, thus a continuous physical interaction with the device is not forced onto visitors; however, a temporary physical contact with the device is often encouraged.
Another application of iPads is during structured educational experiences: the devices are used in
learning contexts such as workshops.
advantage of their large screens and gesture-based interfaces.
iPads as interpretative tools used by museum educators during group tours: the devices are mainly used by museum educators and docents in order to provide visitors with additional multimedia content that may facilitate fun, engagement and understanding. Multimedia resources are managed by docents, thus a continuous physical interaction with the device is not forced onto visitors; however, a temporary physical contact with the device is often encouraged.
Another application of iPads is during structured educational experiences: the devices are used in
learning contexts such as workshops.
Using iPad in workshop
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