To
highlight the many astronauts with ties to their home state of Indiana,
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis (TCM) partnered with Balance Studios,
leaders in interactive development applications. Keeping the focus on
the astronauts, the creative team developed a colorful and engaging
touchscreen that educates and entertains guests before and after they
visit the museum.
With an emphasis on the astronauts leading the design,
Balance designed a colorful and engaging touchscreen and a matching responsive
website. Beyond the biographies and photos, visitors can search through a complex tagging system, discovering how astronauts are connected through their training, missions, and decades. To ensure ADA compliance, each screen also has an audio file that reads the content to the visitor.
The custom content management system (CMS) delivers a tagging system that allows TCM to match
astronauts with information such as years and dates of service, their
missions into space, and information about their training and education.
Museum administrators can easily update or
edit astronaut biography information, and add images and videos. The
Hall of Fame was so popular and well-used by patrons that the team had
to add another server to accommodate all of the analytics and the many
people who were accessing it.
Video credit to RTV6 The Indy Channel