Space center trip

Choose an interactive display that you found exciting and engaging: a display that tests your eye sight and body movement.
Describe the elements in the display and say why you found it exciting and engaging? An interaction display with buttons on the wall. Random button lights up at a constant speed and the aim of this interactive system is to see how fast you can react and touch that button, which then tests your eye sight and body movement (reaction).
Because I’ve seen this interactive display before on some TV program, it has made me interested in actually using them in real. It was particularly exciting and engaging as the screen beside the display shows the score of your reaction to the display, which made me realize how well I was in reacting to the light buttons. Furthermore, because this involves lots of movement (i.e. reaching up and down the button) also was engaging and fun to use.
What interactive elements were used? Buttons and touch screen.

How successful were these interactive multimedia elements? The reaction of the touch screen was slow when going from one stage to the next Also there were limited number of levels, so it would have been better if there were more selective number of levels.

Do you think the interactive elements helped you to engage with the information in a new way? Well, not really. If the score at the end was compared with other people’s score, it would have made it more engaging. i.e. put ranking of the scores at the end showing how well you are..etc.

Now choose an interactive display that you find is not engaging at the Space Centre.
Why do you think it does not work? How would you improve it? I think ‘The Space Truck’ was working poorly in terms of engagement. Because the buttons for moving the truck around the space model with using the controller wasn’t working at all. The truck managed to move slightly forward and backward but it wasn’t picking up the signal properly.