interactives
Ant Foraging
(interactive presentation)
Fetal Ultrasound
(exhibit kiosk)
Myers Rotifers
(scientific CD-ROM)
Name that Dinosaur
(museum kiosk)
Potter's Journal
(museum kiosk)
Punctuation Marks
(educational CD-ROM)
Interactive Kiosks Presentations, and CD-ROMs
I started in new media by creating interactive kiosks for museums and other public exhibits. The challenge was to provide useful and engaging content to users in what is characteristically a distracting and often chaotic environment.
The demand for interactive kiosks has shrunk in recent years because of the ubiquity of personal computers capable of handling graphics-intensive programs and the pervasiveness of the web. Nonetheless, the interactive kiosk still has a place, provided it can be effectively tied-in with the rest of the exhibit hall.
With the conspicuous exception of games, interactive CD-ROMs are also substantially less pervasive than they were a decade ago. Here again, the web is a contributing factor. However, bandwidth considerations can make disk-based applications viable. The Myers Rotifer CD-ROM, for instance, offers an advantage over a web-based application because it contains many high-resolution images.
