Technology is part of our heritage
By Jason Slater in Reader
Posted in Technology on June 23, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Having recently joined English Heritage in an attempt to increase the number of interesting and child friendly places to take the kids I was surprised to find the effective application of technology, in particular, at the Wroxeter Roman City in Shropshire. Upon entry to the venue we were supplied with small hand-held mobile phone style units to use as we wandered around the site; these came with handy little lanyards to stop them getting in the way.
Information posts were dotted around at various points around the site, pressing the relevant number on the keypad rewarded us with our own virtual tour guide so we could learn as much, or as little, as we liked about each particular point of interest based on our personal preference. This site is great with plenty of area for the kids to run around and a picnic area to settle down, eat, drink and watch the little dynamos running around with their seemingly abundant energy.
The use of technology was interesting for two reasons, firstly because the kids loved it, wandering about looking for posts, pushing buttons and trying to converse with the tour guide and secondly because I just finished my research project at Uni that looked into the area of mobile push applications. It struck me that if these audio information devices were made location aware, perhaps based on RFID or localised Bluetooth technology, then we would pretty much have a demonstration of exactly what I have been researching for all these months.
It is always exciting to see technology being usefully applied in unexpected places and even more so for its application to so naturally add value and complement the facilities which it supports.
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