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"Nuts and bolts":
interactive exibits
Exhibit
development & fabrication
Designs
& performance specifications
Discovery
Disks: mobile mini-interactives
'Beam Cam' projecting video microscope
Underwater
Street Discovery Centre
Moscow
Planetarium
Sellafield
Visitor Centre
'Alternative
energy'
Earth
Science
Fixed
Discovery Disks, Glasgow
Air-table,
telescope, moon-phases
Astronomy
exhibits for Valencia
Biometrics
Magnetic
field exhibit for CERN, Geneva
Tabletop
Discovery Disks: magnetism
Tabletop
Discovery Disks: Light
More
Light interactives
"Academic"
interactives: The Energy Enzyme
"Academic
interactives": Electron beams
"Academic
interactives": Mantle geology
Working
canal-lock model
Virtual
exhibit: Ich bin einmalig
Chemistry
interactives: Chirality
Video
microscopes: Melting crystal
Push-button
quiz: Breath of life
Environmental
& biological
Cookbook
outlines of my 1992 "classical" Great Explorations interactives
Talk to me!
UK phone/fax
+44 (0) 1663 743794
Email ian@interactives.co.uk
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Ich
bin einmalig ("I am unique")
Produced for the Max-Planck-Institut für Züchtungsforschung
in Cologne, Germany.
The touch-screen 'kiosk' version of 'Ich bin einmalig' had to
be developed extremely quickly, in just a few weeks, to fill a sudden
need for a relevant exhibit to go on public display. Because of the critical
time-factor we decided to re-work a tried-and-tested concept in which
users enjoy comparing some of their distinctive characteristics (such
as eye colour, ability to roll the tongue etc.) with those of previous
users, stored in a constantly growing database. In the process, some of
the fundamental concepts relating to human genetics are illustrated in
an entertaining and memorable way.
Having compared their characteristics in this way, motivated users have
an opportunity to browse relevant background information in a simple set
of hypertext pages.
I developed the concept, detailed the software specification and wrote
the script. The touch-screen 'kiosk' version is in German.
A lower bandwidth version was also developed for the World Wide Web.
This is an interesting example of the growing potential for maximising
the cost-effectiveness of software development, by producing a 'virtual
exhibit' for the Internet at the same time.
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