CultureGrrl gives Art on Call a try and writes a review on her blog. I’m not sure when she actually used the service, but we’ve just recently installed a nifty cellphone signal repeater in the space deepest in the galleries that previously got terrible reception - right next to the Burnet gallery. It’s possible her carrier simply doesn’t benefit from the frequencies we’re repeating (it doesn’t cover them all) but I’m hopeful it was just a matter of timing and the repeater hadn’t kicked on.
As for her other comments, I think some of them will be addressed in the near(ish) future as we start incorporating feedback into the menu prompts. For instance, many people don’t realize you can interrupt the initial prompt by typing in the 4-digit code, effectively skipping right to the artwork you’re looking at. Hopefully that will take some of the hassle out of repeated calls if you can just hit redial, wait for the answer, and then just punch in the code. Much faster.
Anyone else lurking on the blogs have an experience with Art on Call (web or phone) they’d like to share? Leave a comment or link back to this post and we’ll pick it up.
We just turned on our VXML server which is going to start letting us experiment with this stuff across the river at the Science Museum. I am hoping to figure out some of these same issues. We are going to be starting off with some purely experimental applications but they should be a fun way to extend our reach outside the museum….more soon (including a phone number).
Comment by bryan kennedy — 6/25/2006 @ 12:41 am
Bryan, that’s super exciting stuff… By all means, either post or email a phone number when there’s something to play with. I’m about to jump into some of the lower level VXML stuff again, we’ll have to compare notes when we get stuck. :)
Comment by Nate Schroeder — 6/26/2006 @ 8:46 am