Smithsonian Museum Kiosk Design
In my Interactive Applications class, I was tasked to visit a museum virtual exhibit and its kiosks. This virtual field trip aims to teach me how a kiosk design would give the attendants the related information and space needed for the exhibit. Once I’ve completed the fieldwork and viewed the standards/trends used by these kiosks, I began working on my kiosk project. I chose the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum for my virtual field trip and decided to create a kiosk for the V1 rockets exhibit on the second floor of the museum. The V-1 rockets were used by the Nazis in WWII against Allied forces, the sites were mainly stationed in France and used against the British.
I wanted to display my 3D artist skills by recreating the V-1 Rocket Launch Site in the 3D modeling program known as Blender. I had recently discovered how easily I could create 3D models by using Blender rather than other programs like the Cinema4D program taught at Maryville University. Seeing that some practice was necessary, I created the models for the V-1 rocket, catapult, and concrete barriers all on top of a grass-colored plane.
After creating the 3D render in Blender, I had created a working web application using HTML, CSS, and Javascript on a private server. It’s a series of simple click and zoom buttons that would move the user to each part of the Rocket Launch Site with a text box explaining what each button focuses the user on. There’s also a button to reset the entire V-1 Rocket Launch Site.
The view after clicking the Rocket button
The view after clicking the Catapult button
The view after clicking the Concrete button
Link:
http://jkuhlman1.musites.org/Kiosk%20-%20Jacob%20Kuhlman/deploy%20-%20Jacob%20Kuhlman/
