Our Findings:

  • The Voice of AI Exhibit:
    • Use of motion detection instead of a typical button to start the recorded audio clip
    • Require standing still to hear the entire clip
    • Makes the experience more interesting than pressing a button, but we felt that it wasn’t exactly adding to what the clips are talking about. The visual of seeing a big speaker in front of you is nicer than staring at nowhere
  • Arthur Ganson Exhibit (moving machines)
    • The contraptions only start moving when one stands right in front of it
    • Forces the viewer to stay close to the machines in order to see the intricate details instead of just glancing from afar
    • Perhaps saves power
    • The whale machine uses stimulate different senses instead of just visual (sound and feel)
  • Virtural Tools Game
    • Using the touchscreen allows way more interactivity than staring at a video demonstrating it instead
    • Visitors can physcially play with the exhibit in a way that a wall of text and pictures cannot
  • Poem Writing AI Exhibit
    • Using the extended screen to show past poems in a very interesting way
    • Could potentially be replaced with a printer and a physcial wall that people can pin their poems onto in whatever way they want