Design Goals for NetWorld, an Immersive Public Exhibit about the Internet (CA)

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Abstract

The paper discusses the design challenges for creating NetWorld, a permanent museum exhibit about how the Internet works. The exhibit space itself is responsive to visitors. It senses them through technologies such as computer vision, wireless ID cards, and physical devices with embedded sensors and responds to them through large touch screens and large-format interactive displays that span across multiple projectors. We present the design goals that lead to the adoption of these techniques and discuss the practical challenges in creating a coherent aesthetic and immersive visitor experience while adopting brand new technologies.

Artists / Authors

• Bruce Wyman, Nearlife Inc., United States › Biography
• Henry Kaufman, Nearlife Inc., United States
• Christopher Kline, Nearlife Inc., United States

Date(s)

• September 22, 2001

Organizer

MARS Exploratory Media Lab under the patronage of Edelgard Bulmahn, German Federal Minister for Education and Research

Location

Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication, Sankt Augustin, Germany

Submission

, Mar 5, 2004

Category

• Lecture

Keywords

• Topics:
  • culture mediation |
  • representation |
  • perception |
  • design |
  • information design |
  • internet |
  • interactivity

Additions to Keyword List

• Ausstellungsgestaltung