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Museum Brennpunkt Interactive Exhibits

Gregor Hofbauer — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:03:25 +0000

The museum BrennpunktÂ° – Museum der Heizkultur Wien (Brennpunkt translates to “focus point”) in Vienna shows unique historical objects of Viennese heating culture and gives background information on heating and its cultural and social impact.

Strukt was commissioned to conceptualize, design and realize four interactive stations and a custom video-player. Strukt developed custom-built physical interfaces like valves and levers to enhance usability and make it more fun for visitors to explore the installations. For these installations Strukt developed the interaction concept, graphic- and motion design, as well as the sound design. Strukt implemented the stations in Adobe Flash AS3 using Arduino boards to read the rotary encoders and levers.

House Configurator

This quiz allows two visitors to create an energy-efficient building, where they can not only decide how their house is built, but also see how their daily behaviour influences the energy and CO₂ consumption.

Photo (c) Rupert Steiner

Energy Game

How much energy does it take to heat a cup of tea? Or even a pot with 5 liters of water? At this interactive station visitors can explore how their physical activity translates into heat by moving the three levers.

Photo (c) Rupert Steiner

Flame Game

It is quite a challenge to find the conditions for an optimal flame. By turning the valves, visitors can regulate the fuel and oxygen supply to achieve the optimal flame inside the pre-combustion chamber.

Temperature Game

At this station visitors can discover how wind and humidity influences the subjective temperature. The portrait screen above the three control valves shows two characters that change their behavior, outfit and surroundings corresponding to the setting.

Photo (c) Rupert Steiner

Video Player

In the foyer of the museum a custom-built video player was installed, that allows a configurable news-feed and a custom play-list. Strukt programmed this application in vvvv.

Photo (c) Rupert Steiner

Schlossmuseum Linz Multitouch Installation

Gregor Hofbauer — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:54:22 +0000

The new and modern add-on to the Schlossmuseum Linz, Upper Austria, is home to a permanent installation of our Struktable. The 70″ multitouch-capable back-projection screen features interactive multi-user games educating the visitors about solar-power, railways, roadways, water and tourism in Upper Austria.

The first game Strukt produced is called “Solar Land”. The visitors can place solar panels on a map of Upper Austria, guessing where they would be most efficient according to the altitude of the sun in the area. After all items are placed, the participants can start a simulation of the insolation over the duration of an entire year. The game shows how much energy is produced during that period of time, and the top simulations are listed in a high-score. The results encourage people to discuss their decissions and to play the game once more, using the knowledge they gained to reach a better score.

Also a new adaption of Strukt’s Media Tree software is in use, providing multi-media content about Upper Austria’s rail- and roadways, as well as water and tourism in the region.

Merchzilla T-Shirt Configurator

Gregor Hofbauer — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:44:58 +0000

Merchzilla – a fine custom-made T-shirt design company from Vienna – opened their first concept t-shirt store sporting not only a big variety of shirts but also the possibility to custom print your purches yourself. For this reason Milan Simic, mastermind of Merchzilla, approached Strukt to create an easy to use T-shirt configurator. Using touchscreens the shop clients can browse through all available T-shirt styles and colors and combine them with various graphics. When they are satisfied with the result, a simple click will print the voucher with all the necessary information and the DIY-printing fun can start.

The configuration application is built on top of an online-database holding all graphic styles so the updating-process is very easy for the Merchzilla crew.