School of Arts and Creative Technologies
Andy Egerton
PhD by Creative Practice
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.
Biography
Biography
Andy Egerton is a PhD Researcher currently working on a CDA funded by WRoCAH and York Museums Trust. With an undergraduate degree in History and Politics from The New School in NYC, and a masters in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies from the University of York, Andy has also worked as a researcher on the University of York's StreetLife project. Andy is currently interested in rendering exhibits inclusive and accessible, efforts to queer museum curation, and initiatives for community archiving.
Research
Research
Museum accessibility, queer history, digital heritage.
