In the interviews we found out that the information about the experiments on Tom Tits didn’t reach the visitors. Next to (most of the) experiments is a short text, but to find more information you have to connect to the mobile application that almost no one knew about. The people who knew about it thought it was too unavailable to use anyway. Furthermore neither the app nor the short text was available in another language than Swedish. Some of the visitors could see a problem with relying on visitors having smart Phones and encourage the idea of having some devices at the museum instead.
Almost everyone we talked to visited Tom Tits because it combines an educative and fun environment for both adults and children. But also almost everyone felt that the information regarding the experiments was hard to reach, which made it hard to explain in a scientific way to the children. We realized that the ages of the kids coming to Tom Tits varied a lot, so it would be great to be able in some way to reach all different ages. In one of our interviews, a visitor suggested different difficulty in the information texts for both young kids, adults and “nerds”. In that way everyone can learn something, whatever age you are and how interested you are in the subject. Another important issue is to catch the attention of the children and to motivate them to look out for the observable phenomenons, which can reached by asking for details.
We all got the impression that it was really hard to get the answers we wanted without leading them in a direction.
After our interviews some of us came to the conclusion that parents have a positive view on the idea of implementing technology to the museum which is a good thing for us.
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