Category Archives: From My Work

These are posts that have to do with my day to day job at the American Museum of Natural History.

MicroRangers Teaser Video

Posted on November 12, 2015 by Barry

MicroRangers is coming… in just few weeks. And here’s a little teaser. Below is a photo of the Communicator Coins which just arrived TODAY! We’re so excited to see them. Conceptually, they began as cards – one which I had … Continue reading →

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Hear me talk about Minecraft all week (please tip your waiter)

Posted on November 8, 2015 by Barry

Sometimes the Minecraft stars align, and sometimes they get all jumbled, and sometimes they just run into a creeper and get blown up. Wait… where was I going with all this? Oh, right! This week I am participating in not … Continue reading →

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Playing Gutsy at the Press Briefing for the Inside You Exhibit

Posted on November 6, 2015 by Hannah Jaris

There was a gentle groan from the players standing around the Gutsy! table stationed at the end of the new exhibit, The Incredible World Inside You. All of the players had to pass their Hand to the left because the … Continue reading →

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Another Lovely Article on our Telepresence Robot

Posted on November 4, 2015 by Barry

Jessica Hullinger penned, “The high-tech museums of the future,” for the The Week. Check it out here or read it below. Like the recent coverage in the Wall Street Journal, it does an excellent job exploring how we’ve been experimenting … Continue reading →

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Feeling Gutsy? Check out a new card game about gut microbiomes

Posted on November 4, 2015 by Barry

It won’t be available for purchase in the store until the opening this weekend of our new exhibit, The Secret World Inside You, but you can download NOW the new card game we developed with exhibit co-curator Susan Perkins, students … Continue reading →

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WSJ Covers Robotic Telepresence in our Hall of Northwest Coast Indians

Posted on October 16, 2015 by Barry

Here’s an AWESOME piece in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal, by Zolan Kanno-Youngs: “Robo Tour Guides Are Ready to Roll at Museums.” It features our explorations of using telepresence robots in our Hall of Northwest Coast Indians (which I discussed here). … Continue reading →

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When Teens Learn SciViz Techniques To Explore Impact of Hurricane Sandy and Climate Change

Posted on September 18, 2015 by Hannah Jaris

Last fall, high school students in the After School Program, Visualizing Climate Change, offered at the American Museum of Natural History, learned about the science of climate change through the filter of data visualization. This was the first climate change … Continue reading →

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MicroRanger Teaser – art, augmented animation, and minigames

Posted on September 18, 2015 by Barry

This is the season. After more than a year and a half, MicroRangers is getting ready to launch. In spring, 2014, we held the first youth program, MicroMuseum, to see if this idea even had any legs, the idea of … Continue reading →

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MicroRangers Back in the Studio

Posted on August 24, 2015 by Barry

Earlier this summer, after a competitive audition process, we brought youth from across our Education programs into the AMNH sound studio to record audio for MicroRangers, our upcoming, Hall-based mobile game. This is always an exciting time, as the project … Continue reading →

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Using an Iterative Design Process to Re-vision Cultural Halls Through Digital Media

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Barry

Last year we had an idea — one of those late-night-shouldn’t-you-be-sleeping kind of crazy ideas — for helping visitors form deeper connections with our the Hall of Northwest Coast Indians. To my delight it was included within a slate of … Continue reading →

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