In this post I want to discuss four apps worth examining that all try to get users to look at objects and use the tablet platform to extend that experience. And then maybe, there’ll be questions about apps creating virtual analogues of a physical experience.

The apps in question are:

1.The University of Virginia Art Museum's "UVaM" app,
2. MoMA's "Abstract Expressionism NY,"
3.The American Folk Art Museum's "Infinite Variety: Three Centuries of Red and White Quilts",
4.and a non-museum example, Pyrolia SA's "Road, Inc."

They run the gamut from pilot project to high-end, big budget custom developed project. What links them is that they all try to use the tablet platform to get you to do engage in a fundamental museum experience: looking closely at objects. And to a surprising extent, they all managed to get me to do it.

By Ed Rodly as seen in Thinking About Exhibits Blog