From what I remembered there were a lot of areas with a lot of interaction particularly for children at the Science Museum so though it would be worth investigating how it had changed since I had last been. What areas where interactive and why? Was there information in the sense? Is the interaction predominately children or do people of all ages get involved? Seeing how the technology has developed since I went as a child. The one element I remember was this Plasma Globe ball that made my hair really static... the colours were so hypnotic and it looked like lightening was occurring in a little round ball, I always though it was a sorcerers power.
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From the visit I was not able to find this amazing ball which the technical name is Plasma globe. However there were quite a few different interactive activities which caught my eye. There was a section in the basement called the Web lab which had a serious of interactive chrome experiments you get your own card at the beginning which you insert into each section. The best part was getting your face drawn by a robot in the sand as shown below. I realised quickly that this was the most popular activity on this floor because it was very personal.
This was similar with other activities in different areas when it actual involved the audience learning or having something personally tailored to them it was far more popular. The other section which was really good with interaction was 'Who am I?' which makes you discover more about what makes you unique looking at your brain and genetics.
They also had a session of did you know facts which was really interesting and could work with what we want to do because it is quite conceptual having an interactive screen or a section with facts on the different sense etc could be really interesting. Here is a taste of some of the did you know.
They also had a session of did you know facts which was really interesting and could work with what we want to do because it is quite conceptual having an interactive screen or a section with facts on the different sense etc could be really interesting. Here is a taste of some of the did you know.
I really liked the visual of the white blood cell we could combine visuals from with in the body such as this one (investigate further how you can get a visual like this contact the science department at Manchester) to be projected around the room looks lava lampesq which remind me of the ferrofuild that we are thinking of developing. These projections could then be interactive similarly to a wall that was at the science museum which is shown below in a clip
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An interactive wall in the Thailand science museum. It is really cool.
