See the museum you want to see

We all enter museums with different interests and needs. I'm leading development of InfoGlass, a computer vision-based digital gallery guide. Each user selects their preferred language, reading level, and text size, then cutting-edge computer vision algorithms identify objects within a gallery and present information appropriate to their selections. So, whether you’re a kid who speaks Spanish or an adult with trouble seeing, you get information in the way that’s best for you. The tool is currently in user testing, but our future plans include a large-scale rollout and different content paths depending on a user’s interests.

Museum exhibits should be easy to design and manage

Every modern museum includes myriad technology. Unfortunately, digital experiences are often built with tools that are custom-made, proprietary, and difficult to use. At the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, I’m creating open-source tools that bring modern, digital interaction within the reach of every museum. These software packages are written in Python using the popular Kivy framework, which offers full support for multi-touch interfaces. These free software tools can be downloaded here.