The following video has been informed by our research and writing about new information environments. The class themes of embodiment, networking technology, and systems theory informed the idea for our proposed “History Happens Here” event. Our event will pull visitors out of the...

  Context A twenty-first century museum is often expected to extend beyond a physical location and engage with the local community. Museums that fulfill both roles tend to be people-centered, collaborative, forward-looking, and accessible from multiple entry points by all. Developments...

    Context Raleigh, NC, particularly the downtown area, is full of historical landmarks. However, the North Carolina Museum of History (NCMH) currently presents North Carolina history embodied in one, centralized locus, the NCMH building, and does not branch out into the...

    Context The North Carolina Museum of History is the guardian of the state’s history, heritage and material culture within local, regional, national and international contexts. Their mission is to “collect and preserve artifacts and other historical materials relating to the...

North Carolina Museum of History Augmented Reality Scavenger Hunt Mostkoff , Storment, Tumash, Whitcomb Context Raleigh, NC, particularly the downtown area, is full of historical landmarks. However, the North Carolina Museum of History (NCMH) currently presents North Carolina history embodied...

NCMH Event Series Proposal: Exploration Saturdays   Context: Rethinking the Museum A twenty-first century museum is often expected to extend beyond a physical location and engage with the local community. Museums that fulfill these roles attend to many qualities: being people-centered,...

The following video has been informed by our research and writing about new information environments. The class themes of embodiment, networking technology, and systems theory informed the idea for our proposed “History Happens Here” event. Our event will pull visitors out of the museum...

CONTEXT The North Carolina Museum of History is the guardian of the state’s history, heritage and material culture within local, regional, national and international contexts. Their mission is to “collect and preserve artifacts and other historical materials relating to the history and...

The following are the results from the exercise during class (week 11) Challenge: Propose designed conditions that would make 4-6 year olds enjoy brushing their teeth. Context: Domain- Bathrooms/Sinks, Health Info Env- Information acquired through Family; Dentist; Toothpaste; Pharmacy Current...

Proposal: Context: To develop an project to increase interest and support for the North Carolina Museum of History that utilizes strategies involving embodiment, networking, and systems theory. Project: An augmented reality tour of downtown Raleigh where participants are assigned a persona and...

Context Propose designed conditions that would make 4-6 year olds enjoy brushing their teeth. Project The proposed design strategy is to employ the use of a tamagotchi-toothbrush acts to teach proper brushing techniques in areas such as length of brushing, number of times to brush in a day and...

Event: Veteran’s Day Story telling community building, storytelling, visitors connection to experts, museum connection to k-12 NCMH vision is … To be the guardian of North Carolina’s history, heritage and material culture within local, regional, national and international contexts, so...

North Carolina Museum of History Proposal Context: Museum doesn’t currently encourage going out and finding history Museum is isolated from history happening now and historical sites Project: Encouraging people to explore Building lasting relationship with their environment Purpose: To...

Problem #1 Propose designed conditions that would make 4-6 year olds enjoy brushing their teeth. Context: Current approaches included a light up toothbrush to help children keep track of time, pneumonic devices to remember motions, and stuffed animals for props. The language used was over the...

IN CLASS APPLY Synthesizing on the children’s toothbrush prompt was fast paced and productive. We were able to quickly agreed upon a storytelling experience taking place while the child brushes his/her teeth. The story will take place through different mediums such as story books that...

Group: Nadya, Sean, Whitney As a group, our strongest themes were self (or user) identity, influencing user behavior, and managing information. These themes were evident in all of our essays, but the way at which we explained ourselves or situated these themes within the large format of the...

Group: Andrew, Nastia, Ariella, Molly Our work discusses the significance of interaction between users and media when designing for new information environments. We identify important moments in interaction from four different angles: (1) the scope of design and its accommodation to different...