Get Out Your Thinking Caps

One of the nation’s leading hands-on science centers, Discovery Place provides ever-changing, entertaining facilities that inspire creative exploration. During a $31.6 million renovation – the largest in Discovery Place’s 27-year history – the organization developed a series of new and original exhibitions including Think It Up, a “thought studio” that combines hands-on product creation and an interactive touchscreen sharing experience designed to inspire innovation.

After Studiobanks integrated Discovery Place, Charlotte Nature Museum and Discovery Place Kids, the organization approached us to design, develop and install a web-based software system that satisfies Think It Up’s core philosophy: to facilitate innovation. Studiobanks became immersed in the principles of innovation behaviors and worked closely with exhibition designers to define an intuitive user interface strategy that begins once a physical product, such as an aluminum shoe, is made.

With Studiobanks strategically developed a software system that seamlessly guides participants through a touchscreen experience to digitally archive and tag products at share or stop motion stations via webcam. Integrated view stations allow participants to explore a data visualization experience of all archived products, which is also viewable on large LCD monitors around the exhibition and online to further inspiration. To provide staff with on-site management capabilities to ensure a Rated G experience, we integrated a hidden administrative “gesture lock” system for seamless flagging and removal of any offensive content.

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