{"id":978,"date":"2016-10-03T13:14:57","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T13:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=978"},"modified":"2016-10-03T13:14:57","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T13:14:57","slug":"learnings-from-using-ibeacons-in-wales-oldest-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/learnings-from-using-ibeacons-in-wales-oldest-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Learnings from Using iBeacons in Wales&#8217; Oldest Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a useful article on the Nesta site on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nesta.org.uk\/our-projects\/digital-rd-fund-arts-wales-case-studies\/ibeacons\" target=\"_blank\">Using Proximity Technology to Enhance the Gallery Experience<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oriel.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oriel Plas Glyn-y-Weddw<\/a> in Llanbedrog on the Llyn Peninsula is Wales\u2019 oldest art gallery. They created a mobile app that uses iBeacons to deliver content to gallery visitors.<\/p>\n<p>They have some insights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They found that audio-only content was best so as not to distract from the art itself.<\/li>\n<li>Users were most interested in content presented by the artists themselves rather than other commentators.<\/li>\n<li>Positioning the beacons was important. Planning and positioning of beacons was vital in ensuring a glitch-free experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our experience of using beacons in art galleries shows that, as with Oriel Plas Glyn-y-Weddw findings, most problems occur when beacon transmissions overlap. You have to fine tune beacon power and\/or trigger on specific ranges in order to prevent false triggering or &#8216;bouncing&#8217; between exhibits when the user hasn&#8217;t even moved. Apps can also be set to ignore multiple triggers that happen within a very short time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a useful article on the Nesta site on Using Proximity Technology to Enhance the Gallery Experience. Oriel Plas Glyn-y-Weddw in Llanbedrog on the Llyn Peninsula is Wales\u2019 oldest art gallery. They created a mobile app that uses iBeacons to deliver content to gallery visitors. They have some insights: They found that audio-only content was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/learnings-from-using-ibeacons-in-wales-oldest-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Learnings from Using iBeacons in Wales&#8217; Oldest Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,103,92,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":981,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions\/981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}