Museums and the Web 2000

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Museums and the Web?

Archives & Museum Informatics
158 Lee Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M4E 2P3 Canada

Michael Twidale

Associate Professor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
501 E Daniel ST
Champaign IL
61820 USA
Email: twidale@uiuc.edu

Michael Twidale is an Associate Professor at Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before that he was a faculty member of the Computing Department at Lancaster University, UK. His research interests include computer supported cooperative work, computer supported collaborative learning, user interface design and evaluation, museum informatics, and the application of ethnographic methods to computer systems design and evaluation. All these involve the use of interdisciplinary techniques in order to better understand the needs of end users and their difficulties with existing computer applications as part

of the process of designing more effective systems. Current projects include an investigation into data quality in museum databases and collaborative techniques for improving that quality, and the potential of advanced technologies for providing more individualised tours of museums, drawing

on the practice of docents.

Michael will present Unexpected help with your web-based collections: Encouraging data quality feedback from your online visitors