February 11th, 2019 | RESEARCH
The COMPASS conference will bring together 80 participants for two days in September 2018 at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, CA. The first dissemination will take place in a presentation at the ASTC conference the following month in October 2018. A webinar sharing insights from COMPASS and inviting others to engage will be held in March 2019 hosted by ASTC and accessible by ASTC members and non-members alike. A companion COMPASS e-publication will be released for free download, also in March 2019, with summaries of conference proceedings, key issues identified, case histories of ILAM in museums, white papers and other resources. Conference outcomes include establishing a community of practice or special interest group and establishing common goals for future collaborative work. By gathering a diverse range of perspectives and expertise to share research and evidence based findings, COMPASS include collective problem solving and an informed cross disciplinary approach to planning and implementing ILAM technology in the museum environment. The conference will explicitly address the benefits and quality of open source code and protocols and how techniques could be shared among institutions. As professional experience with deploying ILAM apps grows, this tool could be used to increase accessibility for diverse visitor populations, put in use at smaller and medium sized science centers, and applied to a variety of research studies, increasing the impact for funders and benefiting the science center community at large.
Document
2019_AISL_PI_Meeting_Poster_COMPASS_Project.pdf
Team Members
Claire Pillsbury, Principal Investigator, ExploratoriumFunders
Funding Source: NSF
Funding Program: AISL
Award Number: 1712808
Funding Amount: 249,898
Related URLs
Conference on Mobile Position Awareness Systems and Solutions (COMPASS)
Tags
Audience: Evaluators | General Public | Learning Researchers | Museum | ISE Professionals | Scientists
Discipline: General STEM | Technology
Resource Type: Conference Proceedings | Reference Materials
Environment Type: Conferences | Exhibitions | Museum and Science Center Exhibits | Museum and Science Center Programs | Professional Development | Conferences | Networks | Professional Development and Workshops | Public Programs