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Keynote Presentation on the GettyGuide Multimedia Tour Project by Nik Honeysett of the J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, for Tate's Conference 'From Audio Tours to iPhones', 5 September 2008, London.
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Nik HoneysettHead of AdministrationJ. Paul Getty Museum
GettyGuide Handheld (A Cautionary Tale)
From Audiotours to iPhones - Tate ModernThursday 4 September 2008, Workshop, 10.00-18.00, East Room
Friday 5 September 2008, Public Conference, 10.00-18.00, Starr Auditorium
Just as valuable to talk about what not to do rather best practicesHH system launched in 2005, pulled from operation due to operational challengesMade mistakes but learned a lot
GettyGuide Handheld (A Cautionary Tale)The Plan
• Works of art: image & stops• Events: tours & exhibitions• Map• Audio stops - keypad entry• Location sensing
• Download content• Wayfinding
• Integrate with kiosk & web
GettyGuide Handheld (A Cautionary Tale)The Plan
GettyGuide Handheld (A Cautionary Tale)The Execution
• Five internal departments• Five vendors
• None had a vested interest in the complete system functioning
Internal: Interactive Programs (interpretive content), Collections Information (object/registrarial information), Museum Information and Media Systems (academic programming and hardware), Web Group (academic programming), IT department (infrastructure hardware and software)Vendors: Server and application programming, location sensing hardware & software, handheld hardware & programming
Location sensing &Location-specific content
Streaming media – audio & video
GettyGuide Handheld (A Cautionary Tale)The Architecture
GettyGuide Handheld (A Cautionary Tale)The Flaws
• Complex design and usability• not your simple audio guide
• Pushed Content• disturbing to visitor
• Latency• confusing
• Access interference• WAP location – retrofitting technology
• Audio sampled to high• didn’t match rest of the technology
• Location sensing & Streaming Audio• too demanding on the network
• Fault-tolerance• Handle problems elegantly
GettyGuide Handheld (A Cautionary Tale)The Future (part I)
• Reorganise departments and people• less management and coordination
• Handheld Evaluation• Broad gallery tour guide
• Rembrandt Evaluation• Targeted exhibition guide
• Handheld vs. Gallery X-plorer• Comparative device
GettyGuide Handheld (A Cautionary Tale)Evaluations
Handheld Evaluation:
• Had to guess how to get started - wanted a "start from beginning"
• Terms like Gallery, Pavilion, Tour, Guide, Kiosk and Bookmark were not clear
• Location sensing set expectations, wanted the device to know more than was possible
• “Push" approach – confused by unprompted changes• Audio stop lookup number - most successful feature• More "important" paintings should have more in-depth content• Wanted to see more use of the device's visual capabilities
GettyGuide Handheld (A Cautionary Tale)Evaluations
Rembrandt Evaluation:
• 16 paintings in one room; no wall text; paintings identified by supertitles; handheld free; no audioguide; printed materials.
• Overwhelmingly positive response - wanted more content, helped them enjoy the art; preferred to navigate by image - easy to recognize; loved the zoom
• Were there significant usability issues with the device?• How did the Rembrandt handheld affect visitor engagement with the
art?• Did handheld users learn more from the exhibition than non-users?• What were the expectations for technology?
GettyGuide Handheld (A Cautionary Tale)Evaluations
Handheld vs. X-plorer Study Result:
1. 10 Parent/Child pairs; Getty handheld device vs. Gallery X-plorer; Touchscreen vs. Keypad selection
2. No demand for an abridged audio player targeted at families (the handheld) – nearly all the children preferred the X-plorer due to ease of use and variety of audio content
3. Touching text links for content and orienting using images of works of art – both caused confusion
4. Rather pay for an audio player with all audio stops than a free handheld with only family audio stops
5. Would approve of a handheld that had all our audio content with a touchscreen keypad entry & improved on-screen map
Inform the potential of handhelds – can we use them? How can the handheld and audio player be used in conjunction What to See guide
GettyGuide Handheld (A Cautionary Tale)The Future (part II)
• Experiment• Cell phone tours, podcasts, smartphones
• Self-sufficient• In-house production & development• No: hardware, rental, printing (OD)
• Multiple ways to access content
GettyGuide Handheld (A Cautionary Tale)The Future (part II)
GettyGuide Handheld (A Cautionary Tale)iPhone Stats
Details (Thu. 1 May 2008–Thu. 31 July 2008)
Operating System Visitors % Internet Avg %
1. Windows XP 747,249 58.32% 64.77%
2. Macintosh 222,542 17.37% 8.12%
3. Windows Vista 141,361 11.03% 16.73%
4. Windows 2000/NT 5 70,494 5.50% 2.13%5. Media Center 2005 43,614 3.40% 3.72%6. Linux 31,901 2.49% 0.65%
7. Windows Server 2003 and XP x64 Edition 6,005 0.47% 0.76%
8. Windows 98 4,876 0.38% 0.35%9. Macintosh (iPhone) 4,646 0.36% 0.00%
10. Not Specified 4,121 0.32% 1.47%
Cities Page Views
1. Seattle 6,883 46.62%
2. Dallas 1,347 9.12%
3. San Francisco 1,131 7.66%
4. Los Angeles 1,019 6.90%
5. Irvine 897 6.08%
6. Houston 270 1.83%
7. Bellevue 261 1.77%
8. Santa Monica 235 1.59%
9. St Louis 167 1.13%
10. Van Nuys 163 1.10%
Top Cities Sending Us iPhone Traffic (Wed. 1 Aug. 2007-Thu. 31 July 2008)
GettyGuide Handheld (A Cautionary Tale)iPhone Stats
Site Sections Page Views
1. visit/ 6,936 46.98%
2. Root Directory 2,315 15.68%
3. museum/ 2,162 14.64%
4. art/ 1,610 10.90%
5. about/ 336 2.28%
6. Unspecified 333 2.26%
7. education/ 162 1.10%
8. research/ 161 1.09%
9. Search/ 157 1.06%
10. conservation/ 97 0.66%
Site Visits – Getty.edu (Wed. 1 Aug. 2007-Thu. 31 July 2008)
GettyGuide Handheld (A Cautionary Tale)iPhone Stats
GettyGuide Handheld (A Cautionary Tale)A Cautionary Quote
There is no safety in unlimited technological hubris
- McGeorge Bundy