Thursday, September 25, 2014

State of the art analysis: Interactive karaoke at the ABBA museum

At the ABBA museum they offer their visitors to experience how it is to be a part of ABBA. Not just by letting you sing along in a classic karaoke but actually lets you get up on stage as the ABBA members are being 3D-projected on stage with you. I think this is a great example where technology is used to create something more than a museum. It draws the visitors in to the exhibition.



I think these kind of installations would be perfect in an environment where you want to stimulate kids. The key to the experience at the ABBA museum is for the visitor to actually interact with their whole body in the exhibition. For Fotografiska it could be interactive photos where you at certain spots throughout the museum could "enter" the photos by setting up a camera and mapping out the background. Maybe you could use some form of visual tracking to make the visitor move stuff around in the photo or changing the colours. 

The problem I can identify for a whole-body-interactive-experience at Fotografiska is that the environment around this kind of setup gets really loud. Not because of the music but by the excitement and joy of the visitors. It works at the ABBA museum but in the quiet rooms at Fotografiska, where many of the visitors want to stand still and ponder in front of a photo, this could easily become distracting. There are also some subject limitations to when it is possible to implement a similar solution at Fotografiska. The exhibitions are not always suitable for interactive experiences as some photographers focus on serious or explicit subjects.


The general idea is great though. The questions is how do you format it to suit children in a quiet environment. You want to stimulate the children but without disturbing the other visitors.

1 comment:

  1. Very good point. When it comes to make sure improving children's experience won't alter the one of parents and others visitor.
    Having a special room dedicated to this, with glass walls but good sound-isolation could for example solve both the issue of the children's need to have a more involving experience and the will of parents to stay rather close to their children.

    ReplyDelete