Designing With Web - Part 3: week 1

Change museum visit experience with gaming

Group 80
Hélène Merlaud, Benoit Montuclard, Juliette Million, Céline Lo, Adèle Guillaumet

Mindmeister conjoint exploration: here

Project 1: Escape game in a Museum

As escape games are gaining more and more popularity, we decided to export this experience within museums.

For families during an exhibition within a museum (such as within the Paris Opera, Picasso Museum ), to make museum visits more interactive

Target

Our target would be an adult in his late fourties and his family (2-3 children). As escape games are quite expensive, we guess that our target should have a good financial situation. He should have an interest in modern arts, he should love particulary Picasso for example.

Service offered

This escape game would take 1 hour of our client's time. In one hour, he has to escape the museum by going from one room to another one. In order to access a room, you need to have solved the riddle arised in the previous room. It would be a more playful way to learn about an artist and his work. To be more precise about the Web interface: this is an application available on a tablet at the disposal of every team at the entrance of the museum. On this app, there would be various riddles to be solved, indications to escape from every room, a chronometer with the discount of the remaining time etc... There is only a single tablet by team. Every team will have to give itself a name and bring in it at first on the tablet. From there, the game can begin. The theme of the escape game is imposed for everybody and concerns the permanent collection of the artist.

Identity

We imagined a scenario of the escape game: a painting of Picasso disappeared from the museum (the famous painting Guernica).
All the elements of this painting were scattered in several other paintings of the museum... The objective is to find and to gather all these elements to reconstitute the painting !

Here is our mood board

Web interface

Our web interface is an app already available on every tablet. On this one, users will receive some riddles. There is as much riddles as rooms. One riddle allows users to find a missing part of the Guernica painting. This app offers several opportunities to users :
- To activate somes clues if they get stuck
- To answer quizzes about Picasso to win time
- To see the progress of the painting reconstitution via a galery. Once users estimate the painting is fully reconstitute, they can validate it

Several QR codes are dispatched in every rooms of the museum to scan missing parts of the painting. Once users resolved the riddle, they must scan the QR code using the app. The missing part will automatically go into the gallery.

Benchmark

There are many concurrents for this kind of Escape Game. For example in France:
  • - In the National Museum of Sports in Nice
    • Link here

  • -In the Museum of Sciences in Laval

    • Link here
  • Abroad, we have an escape game in the Zoological Museum of Lausanne, Switzerland
    • References

    Books, films, articles...

    Project 2: Giving life to your museum experience

    Virtual reality, has made huge technological improvements making it possible to offer museum visitors a glimpse of how was life before human kind.

    During opening hours of the "Musée national de l'histoire naturelle" in Paris in a movie theater. it would reproduce "La Grande Galerie de l'évolution" but at the time of its inhabitants.

    Target

    Our target would be adults in a good financial situation with young children. It is parents from 30 to 60 years old who are interested in the new technologies and who are fond of interactive museums.

    Service offered

    An experience of one hour and a half. It would be a visit through ages in order to discover the animals and their environment (fauna and flora of the prehistory)

    There is the possibility of realizing the experience alone, with friends, or in family; with options of games in team. The museum lends directly helmets of VR with or without smartphone inside for those who have no it.

    There are interfaces which allows to choose Virtual Reality (VR) videos by themes to have a personalized visit, interactive VR mini-games to learn more on the various themes, if you get good scores, you can have points bonus which allow to have goodies

    Identity

    describe the universe around your service by creating a mood board and name your service accordingly

    Web interface

    Concretely, once the helmet put with an app downloaded on the smartphone, the customer will amble along the museum and will see if the VR option is available on the paintings which interests him. If yes, he finds the video by typing the reference number and the mini game begins, with previously an explanation of the painting by a character of the period or in the theme of the painting. It allows him to move, to see things in the reality, to be mobile and to select only the paintings which he chooses to deepen.

    An example of mini game could be a role play where we embody key characters of the painting. According to our choices the final result of the painting can change.

    Moreover, we can have games in which we have to find indications in the painting to solve a riddle and find a treasure; finally we want to include games with quizzs or challenges in the universe of the chosen painting.

    Benchmark

    List concurrents

    References