Future visitors of a museum shall be caught by the gamificational character of the application. The chosen content was forensic. It includes how the analysts save traces at a crime scene, which traces can be found on the different devices and how they can be analysed. Moreover it shall introduce the visitor into basic biological knowledge.

The visitors are either able to borrow the iPads given by the museum or they can download the application on their own device using the QR-Code on the introduction of the functionality. The application is combined with two real existing scenes in the museum which take place in two different rooms. Therefore the visitor has a digital and a real component in front of him.
live scenes
The two rooms show an extract of a crime screne and a laboratory. In the beginning the task is to find possible traces at different elements at the crime scene. Having started the application it automatically opens the camera.
beginning screen
The visitor has to hold his device in front of the objects that are full of traces or where he suspects them. As soon as the device recognizes its position in front of an object with traces, the object becomes highlighted.

The shown live scene is expanded by so-called Augmented Reality. Via satellite the exact location of the device is calculated. Using a motion sensor the users position and the direction of his view can be determined. The existing environment is amended by additional digital information.
highlighting screen
Having added all the highlighted objects to the inventory they can afterwards be analysed in the laboratory, where the visitor experiences how the investigation is done and of which bricks the trace consists of. Just if all the traces could be found, the second room with the laboratory is unlocked.

The prototype was created with Axure and a few animations were done in After Effects.
information screen

Project

Interactive Communication Systems 1

Second semester

mentoring by Roger Walk

June 2015

Project partners

Matthias Reichert

Maitreya Kirsch

Tools

Illustrator

InDesign

After Effects

Axure