Tell us what you think! Social Interpretation Focus Groups
19 year old typist Iris Joyce (left) talks with a recruiting officer as she enrols in the Women's Land Army. As part of the Social Interpretation project at Imperial War Museums we want to know about...
View ArticleSocial Interpretation Presentation at UKMW11
We presented some of the work of the Social Interpretation Project at UK Museums on the Web Conference on the 25th November 2011. Agile as a starting point: We have taken an agile approach quite...
View ArticleMerry Christmas! (Or how I Learned to Love The Bomb)
Christmas from our collections - the woman on the left scares me a little. (http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205196818) I thought that I’d post a quick Merry Christmas (or just happy...
View ArticleThe QR and/or Code Conundrum
QR Codes are the cause of much debate / argument / kitten killing, both in and outside of Social Interpretation. But why do we need them? What are the different options? And if using QR, what can one...
View ArticleStalking visitors and what it tells us
Commandos 'stalk the enemy' under cover of a smokescreen during training in Scotland, 28 February 1942. In December I was let loose in the atrium space, with a clip board and some less than desirable...
View ArticleAgile working… learning how to pee quickly.
Twenty-three sheets of toilet paper, issued to British Far East prisoners of war held by Japanese forces, during the Second World War. Agile management in part is supposed to be a faster way of...
View ArticleSocial Interpretation Seminar at Kings College
He Talked ... This Happened - Careless Talk Costs Lives Poster We will be talking at the New Directions in Digital Humanities seminar on 23rd Feb 2012 at 1pm. The King’s”New Directions in Digital...
View ArticleLive and kicking
So. The Social Interpretation. She goes live today. The first bit anyway. 6 kiosks for visitors to comment on 6 objects. And 8 QR Codes that resolve to shiny new IWM mobile web pages, for the...
View ArticlePause. Rewind?
It has been relatively quiet, project-wise for the past 2 weeks. Tom has left IWM and the new project leader, Carolyn (Head of New Media at IWM) and project partner Claire have been at Museums and the...
View ArticleRoll up and Roll out. The Final Push for SI
The majority of work for SI to date has focused on the in gallery kiosks. The next iteration of which are currently being installed in IWM North. What we haven’t really discussed yet, is the mobile...
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