Andy Egerton

Thesis

Thesis

Creating inclusive interactive exhibits: a creative practice project that will enable designers and curators of museum exhibits to create fully accessible visitor experiences in a changing technological landscape

• Supervisor: Dr Anna Bramwell-Dicks and Professor Mariana Lopez

Increasingly museums include interactive exhibits that use new technologies. While these exhibits offer exciting opportunities for many visitors, disabled people can be excluded due to access issues, e.g. mobility limitations affecting control of a Virtual Reality experience. This project will focus on understanding how to enable curators to ensure interactive exhibits can be used by any visitor, no matter their access needs. Using a research by creative practice approach, this work will lead to support materials that enable curators to create inclusive, accessible exhibits together with an exemplar fully inclusive, accessible interactive exhibit.