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Interview with Evette Ring - Education Officer Public Programmes

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BM: I get the impression that you prefer more the physical interactive types of things.

ER: I have more experience of the physical interactives, than I do of computer interactives. So that's maybe where my bias comes from. I think somewhere like, Techniquest, works well with the physical interactives. And it tends to have the physical interactives. Other places, such as @Bristol have a number of computer interactives. Museums tend to have a lot of computer interactives. The Big Idea up in Irving had a number. As did Dynamic Earth, Our Dynamic Earth up in Edinburgh. They tended to have, that's a good example actually. In - Our Dynamic Earth in, Edinburgh, the computer interactive that I'm thinking of had - a dinosaur and also a choice of other animals. So you chose one of 3 animals and then it morphed the dinosaur it was it was showing the computer morphing I hope rather than evolution because if it was evolution it was slightly dodgy. But it it then morphed the dinosaur into a polar bear for example. So that way, your interaction, was choosing one of the three creatures that it could turn into. But the actual - work was done by the computer. You weren't involved in any of the decision making, or - or anything like - am I making myself clear? It's, do you see what I mean? So so that can that can work and in certain places it certainly does but I have far more experience with the physical interactives. I'm not saying that the computer interactives are bad - they do different things.

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