After our visit to the Rotunda museum last Wednesday afternoon, I come away with a good insight into what we need to work towards and achieve to create a successful and effective installation for the museum.
From the installations that I had a look around, one of the key things I found was the way in which each installation was nicely packaged physically, and fitted very well with the look of the surrounding décor.
In terms of the installations interface, It was commonly understood to me that the key to success is the simplicity of the users experience and interfacing, as each where clearly labelled and made obvious on how to use each.
On thing I did like was the sheer size of the installation depicting the Yorkshire coast as it would of been in the Jurassic period, having the large and very clear touch screen made the experience very engaging and visual. The text on this display was easily read as the display had a very high level of clarity. One disappointment with this was the lack of any sort of main menu or overall return/reset button to press, this would make for a poor experience say if the installation had been left part way through the cycle to a new user, and my even put people off quite quickly.
The other installations were fairly simple in terms of interfacing, and delivered relevant information efficiently and effectively to the user, without being over immersed in animate GUI or transitional effects. However the lack of any story or plot line, and no interactive learning, would most likely be unsuccessful at appealing to young age groups.
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