by Roger Layton | May 9, 2016 | ETHER Experience, Museums, user experience
We conducted an analysis of museum web sites almost ten years ago, with the purpose of understanding how good are local museum web sites compared to the best in the world, and we repeated this study four years ago. We have recently commenced a new such survey of South...
by Roger Layton | Feb 25, 2015 | ETHER Experience, Museum of Mathematics, Museums, user experience
I have always considered Alan Turing to be my personal hero, the one historical figure whom I can look up to and acknowledge. Alan who? you say! His life story has been the subject of a recent movie, The Imitation Game, which made it to the final few movies for the...
by Roger Layton | Oct 9, 2014 | ETHER Experience, user experience
Two years ago we designed and built the Virtual Tour Guide, as a way that you can provide information to your visitors using their own mobile phones. This provides benefits to both the visitors, in terms of a more informed and modern experience, and also to the...
by Roger Layton | Apr 14, 2013 | Heritage News, user experience
Those who have followed by own thinking will understand how I have promoted the enhancement of the user experience at galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMS) through the use of mobile devices using our own Virtual Exhibition (for digital visitors) and...
by Roger Layton | Mar 6, 2013 | digital institution, ETHER Governance, user experience
28 Feb 2012. Johannesburg. Roger Layton, the CEO of The ETHER Initiative, presented a visionary paper on the long-term future of memory institutions in his paper “Towards the Digital Instititution” at the SADI Conference held at the University of the...
