As
museums look for new and creative ways to engage visitors, exhibits
need to combine education and entertainment. With that in mind, the
Center for Science and Industry (COSI) opened a new exhibit that
teaches visitors about how social science relates to everyday life.
The Social Science Interactive utilizes the interactive technology of the HypeBox to show how social science is a part of everything we do. Visitors answer quiz questions that appear on the touchscreen of the HypeBox. As they touch the screen, the HypeBox
reacts to the selection, lighting up different zones, showing
additional questions, animations, and motion graphics about the artifacts
and their relationship to social science. Once the quiz is completed,
visitors see how much they know about social science and learn how
their score compares to other COSI visitors.
Even
better, the interactive features a custom content management system
(CMS) that allows COSI administrators to update the social science quiz
content and even repurpose the interactive for completely different
quizzes.