From Carly - Exhibit Stuff

There is an interesting project called “Get In Line” by the design team known as Evil Genius. I can not create links in this post for some reason right now so google “evil genius designs get in line”. It was designed to entertain people waiting in line for a ride at an amusement park or concert etc. While we probably won’t have to deal with huge lines of people, it could have applications for our purposes of engaging guests in a goal-oriented game like journey through our exhibit. Get In Line allows up to 6,000 people to use their cell phones to interact with games on one or more communal larger screens that everyone can see.

Evil Genius won an award for Get In Line at The International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions Expo last year. Again I cannot create a link to this for some reason. This year’s expo will be in November in Florida. This is not necessarily specific to museum exhibits but it looks like some pretty innovative ideas have come out of this expo in the past and it might be worth going to.

I have also been looking into retail applications for “virtual try-on” systems both in stores and online, as well as body scanning  for the same purposes (which is probably way to invasive for us to use). The flagship Macy’s in NYC has something called the “magic mirror” that I am going to test out on my way home to upstate NY next weekend, after which I will post more specifics. I am thinking we can use something like this to allow guests to “try on” some of our garments that will be on display.

- Carly