MOSTI - Interactive digital museum exhibit design
Summary
TLDRTwo South African digital media companies collaborated with Mt. Studios to create 21 interactive installations for a Saudi Arabian Science and Technology Museum. These installations showcase Islamic contributions to various fields from 700 BC to 1700 AD. Highlights include a 5m long multi-touch table, geometric art tables, and a touchscreen exploring Islamic architecture, all designed to engage visitors through intuitive gestures and bilingual content.
Takeaways
- 🌐 Two South African digital media companies collaborated with Mt. Studios to create 21 interactive media installations for a Science and Technology Museum in Saudi Arabia.
- 📚 The installations showcase the Islamic World's scientific and technological advancements from 700 BC to 1700 AD in various fields such as mathematics, medicine, astronomy, art, architecture, and more.
- 🌟 The flagship exhibit is a 5-meter long rear-projected multi-touch table that allows multiple users to interact with a timeline of Islamic contributions to science and technology.
- 🔍 The timeline table includes over 300 historic events and can display content from both the Arabic and Gregorian calendars, with language toggle between English and Arabic.
- 📊 The interface of the timeline table uses intuitive gestures like dragging and swiping, and employs camera tracking technology for multi-user functionality.
- 🏛️ Other exhibits include a geometric art multi-touch table, an interactive Islamic world map, and a touchscreen that explores the golden ratio and its significance in nature, art, and architecture.
- 📚 The 'Islamic Inventions' touchscreen provides access to a repository of inventions and discoveries by Islamic scholars, highlighting their contributions to various scientific fields.
- 🌳 The 'Herbal Medicine' touchscreen emphasizes the role of Muslim scholars in the field of herbal medicine, featuring a lexicon of medicinal plants and their uses.
- 🏙️ The 'Islamic Architecture' touchscreens focus on architectural elements, renowned sights, and Arabesque patterns, creating a seamless presentation of Islamic architectural achievements.
- 💊 The 'First Pharmacist's' touchscreen presents scholars who were experts in pharmaceutical science, using a skillfully illustrated interface that employs the parallax principle for a 3D effect.
- 🔐 The 'Cryptography' touchscreen teaches users about the origins of encryption and allows them to experiment with basic principles of cryptography.
Q & A
Which two South African digital media companies were commissioned by Mt. Studios to develop digital installations for a museum in Saudi Arabia?
-The script does not mention the specific names of the two South African digital media companies commissioned by Mt. Studios.
What is the primary purpose of the digital installations developed for the Science and Technology Museum in Saudi Arabia?
-The installations are designed to display various aspects of the technical and scientific advances of the Islamic World from 700 BC to 1700 BC in fields such as maths, medicine, astronomy, art, architecture, chemistry, botany, and more.
How long is the flagship exhibit's multi-touch table in the museum?
-The flagship exhibit is a 5-meter long rear projected multi-touch table.
What is the main feature of the timeline multi-touch table that allows multiple users to interact simultaneously?
-The timeline multi-touch table includes more than 300 historic events and allows users to open and close 20-year time windows by selecting periods from either the Arabic or Gregorian calendar.
How does the language toggle function work on the timeline multi-touch table?
-The language can be easily toggled between English and Arabic by swiping your hand or finger across the content left to right, or vice versa.
What technology was used to create the multi-touch table of this scale?
-The development team used innovative camera tracking technology to identify fingers and hands of visitors, and Adobe Flash for the application development.
What is the purpose of the geometric art multi-touch table?
-The geometric art multi-touch table invites users to design their own Arabesque patterns using predefined elements.
How does the interactive Islamic world map display content?
-The interactive Islamic world map shows the extent of the Muslim World during its heyday in the 12th century, with animated maps displayed on a 56-inch plasma screen above a large physical book.
What is the main challenge faced by the Cape Town companies during the project?
-The main challenge was a very tight deadline of 6 months for the design and production of all 21 exhibits.
How did the development team address the design challenge of displaying content in both English and Arabic?
-The development team created a genuine custom Arabic text display function in Adobe Flash to ensure the Arabic text was rendered correctly.
What is the significance of the 'Why did Islamic science flourish?' display?
-This display engages a pulley system allowing the user to drag a large plasma screen from left to right, scrolling through content chapters that present 12 reasons why science flourished in the Islamic World between the 9th and 12th centuries.
Outlines
🌐 Islamic World's Scientific Contributions
Two South African digital media companies collaborated with Mt. Studios to create 21 interactive media installations for a Science and Technology Museum in Saudi Arabia. These installations showcase the Islamic World's advancements in various fields from 700 BC to 1700 AD. The flagship exhibit is a 5-meter long multi-touch table that allows users to interact with a timeline of Islamic contributions to science and technology. The table features more than 300 historical events and uses intuitive gestures for navigation. It also incorporates camera tracking technology and is synchronized across three sections using Adobe Flash. Other exhibits include a geometric art table, a pattern recognition table, and an interactive Islamic world map. The project faced challenges such as a tight deadline and the need to display content in both English and Arabic, which required a custom text display function.
🌟 Interactive Displays on Islamic Science and Culture
The script describes various interactive exhibits designed to educate visitors about the Islamic World's contributions to science, technology, and culture. These include a touchscreen application on Islamic inventions, a golden ratio touchscreen, a human anatomy touch wall, and a Muslim polymath touchscreen. Each exhibit uses innovative technology to engage users, such as magnetic sensors, pulley systems, and 3D recreations. The exhibits cover a wide range of topics, from the history of Islamic settlements to the role of Muslim scholars in various scientific fields. The project also includes a custom-designed touchscreen application on the history of encryption and a timeline application showcasing Islamic contributions to science and technology.
🏙️ Islamic Architecture and Pharmaceutical Science
This paragraph focuses on exhibits related to Islamic architecture, pharmaceutical science, and the history of encryption. Three large touchscreens display architectural elements, renowned sights, and Arabesque patterns. The first pharmacist's touchscreen introduces scholars who were experts in pharmaceutical science, using a skillfully illustrated interface with a 3D illusion. The virtual books touchscreen presents the original illustrations and texts of Al Jazer's seminal book on knowledge of ingenious devices. A touchscreen application on cryptography teaches users about the origins of encryption and allows them to experiment with basic principles. The roots of technology timeline application displays entries on Islamic contributions to science and technology, revealing how many inventions were falsely attributed to Western scholars.
🏆 Challenges and Achievements in Exhibit Development
The final paragraph highlights the challenges faced by the Cape Town companies during the project, which included a tight six-month deadline for the design and production of all 21 exhibits. Key technologies used in the project had to be rapidly acquired and perfected, such as the multi-touch table hardware. Additionally, the display of content in both English and Arabic presented a unique design challenge due to the right-to-left reading direction of Arabic. The development team created a custom Arabic text display function in Adobe Flash to address this issue. The paragraph also mentions an Iban Batuta game touchscreen and a quiz touchscreen that tests visitors' knowledge on the most important facts from the exhibition.
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Keywords
💡Interactive Media Installations
💡Islamic World
💡Multi-touch Table
💡Adobe Flash
💡Camera Tracking Technology
💡Geometric Art Multi-touch Table
💡Human Anatomy Touch Wall
💡Muslim Polymath Touchscreen
💡Parallax Principle
💡Cryptography
Highlights
Two South African digital media companies collaborated with Mt. Studios to create 21 digital interactive installations for a Science and Technology Museum in Saudi Arabia.
The installations showcase the scientific and technological advancements of the Islamic World from 700 BC to 1700 BC in various fields.
The companies worked closely with Mt. Studios on research, conceptualization, and design to ensure cultural appropriateness and market suitability.
The flagship exhibit is a 5-meter long rear-projected multi-touch table featuring a timeline of Islamic contributions to science and technology.
The timeline table allows multiple users to interact simultaneously, displaying over 300 historic events.
Visitors can open and close 20-year time windows on the timeline table by selecting periods from the Arabic or Gregorian calendar.
The interface of the timeline table lets users revolve event icons around the central timeline and access detailed information on selected events.
Major events trigger Uber animations, such as the travels of Ibn Battuta or the first use of gold coins in the Arabic world.
The multi-touch table was designed with a glass surface divided into three sections, synchronized by Adobe Flash and live socket connections.
Innovative camera tracking technology was used to identify fingers and hands for multi-user functionality on the table.
The geometric art multi-touch table invites users to design Arabesque patterns using predefined elements.
The Islamic world map installation uses pattern recognition technology to navigate content by placing physical cards on the table.
The interactive Islamic world map allows visitors to page through a large physical book, with animated maps displayed on a plasma screen.
The 'Why Did Islamic Science Flourish?' display uses a pulley system to scroll through content chapters on the history of Islamic science.
The Islamic inventions touchscreen provides access to a repository of inventions and discoveries by Islamic scholars.
The golden ratio touchscreen explores the connection between Fibonacci numbers and the golden ratio, with examples in nature, art, and architecture.
The human anatomy touch wall allows users to explore early Islamic knowledge of human anatomy using an onscreen magnifying glass.
The Muslim polymath touchscreen honors Muslim scholars with a 3D recreation of the House of Wisdom and interactive scholar profiles.
Islamic architecture is showcased through three large touchscreens focusing on architectural elements, renowned sights, and arabesque patterns.
The first pharmacist's touchscreen presents scholars expert in pharmaceutical science with an interface using the parallax principle.
The virtual books touchscreen presents original illustrations and texts from Al Jazari's seminal book of knowledge of ingenious devices.
The cryptography touchscreen teaches users about the origins of encryption and lets them experiment with basic principles of cryptography.
The roots of technology timeline application displays hundreds of entries on Islamic contributions to science and technology.
The numeral systems touchscreen lets users experiment and calculate with Arabic, Roman, and Babylonian number systems.
The Ibn Battuta game touchscreen challenges users to travel through the world of the 14th century, answering questions to collect treasures.
The quiz touchscreen allows visitors to test their knowledge of the most important facts from the exhibition, comparing their scores to averages.
The project faced a tight deadline of 6 months for design and production of all 21 exhibits, requiring rapid acquisition and perfection of key technologies.
The development team created a custom Arabic text display function in Adobe Flash to correctly render Arabic script.
Transcripts
two South African digital media
companies were commissioned by Mt
Studios an exhibition maker based in
Cape Town in Dubai to develop 21 digital
unique interactive media installations
for a newly built Science and Technology
Museum in Saudi Arabia their interactive
AV Productions display various aspects
of the technical and scientific advances
of the Islamic World from 700 BC to 1700
BC in the fields of maths medicine
astronomy art and architecture chemistry
botony besides others during the
six-month design and production time the
companies worked closely with mte
Studios who were responsible for
research and copyrighting to
conceptualize each application and
together making sure the overall design
of each exhibit was appropriate for the
target market market and subject matter
as well as taking into account cultural
differences when displaying certain
imagery such as the human
body the flagship exhibit of the museum
is a 5 m long rear projected multi-touch
table allowing multiple users to
interact simultaneously with the
timeline of Islamic contributions to
science and technology spanning a period
of 1,000 years the timeline multi-touch
table includes more than 300 historic
events relating to important discoveries
and achievements of the time when first
approaching the installation visitors of
the museum get an immediate overview of
key events which are represented as
markers and title text on the sequential
timeline in order to accommodate the
massive amount of content in a seamless
presentation across the table the
interface lets users open and close
20-year time windows by selecting the
periods from either the Arabic or
Gregorian calendar displayed on both
side of the table by touching the
table's glass surface at the point of
Interest a 20-year time window opens up
showing the events that occur during
that time next visitors swipe their hand
or finger up and down to revolve event
icons around the central timeline
bringing desired content to the FL when
a particular event is selected a window
opens up showing images animation and
text related to that event language can
be easily toggled between English and
Arabic simply by swiping your hand or
finger across the content left to right
or vice versa
events of major importance trigger Uber
animations that span the entire table
this may Mark the extraordinary travels
of iban batuta from tangas to China or
coins rainning onto the table
representing the first use of gold coins
in the Arabic world to create a
multi-touch table of this scale the
glass surface had to be divided into
three sections although the graphical
interface design creates the impression
of a seamless surface across the entire
table visitors explore explore the
content of the timeline by walking
around the table interacting with both
sides which effectively means the
timeline is 10 m long the interface
works with intuitive gestures such as
dragging and swiping the application
itself was developed in Adobe Flash and
uses a live socket connection to
synchronize the three sections of the
table Each of which is driven by a
separate quad core
PC
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to achieve multi-user functionality the
development team made use of innovative
camera tracking technology which
identifies fingers and hands of visitors
touching the surface in addition to
developing the software we also designed
and built the hardware from the bottom
up and ship the entire table to Saudi
Arabia in massive wooden crates or all
in all the timeline touch table uses
three quad core PCS Six tracking cameras
and six data projectors mounted under
the table surface along with power surge
regulators and an effective cooling
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system the geometric art multi-touch
table invites users to design their own
Arabesque patterns using predefined
elements the application offers the
option to recreate patterns which are
displayed in the background of the table
alternative L users can create their own
patterns using a repository of
predefined elements the table measures 1
M square and uses two data
projectors another 1 M Square projection
table uses sophisticated pattern
recognition technology allowing users to
navigate content information by placing
physical cards onto the table's glass
surface the circular cards divided into
English and Arabic are held in four
containers one in each corner of the
table each card represents a specific
Topic in the field of mathematics once a
card has been placed on the table a
circular menu is projected around the
card next visitors rotate the cards to
select the desired subcategory which is
presented with text and
images
the interactive Islamic world map shows
the extent of the Muslim World during
its Heyday in the 12th century visitors
page through the wooden pages of a large
physical book taking them through the
expansion periods of the Muslim World
simultaneously animated Maps
illustrating the events are being
displayed on a 56in plasma screen above
the book the interface was realized
using using magnetic sensors in the book
connected to a serial connection on the
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PC this why did Islamic science flourish
display engages a pulley system allowing
the user to drag a large plasma screen
from left to right when changing the
position of the screen the user Scrolls
through content chapters which present
12 reasons why science flourished in the
Islamic World between the 9th and 12th
centuries
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this top- down projection onto a 2 MX 1
M vacuum form topographical relief
surface shows an animation explaining
how early Islamic settlements were
formed and grew into large
cities Additionally the scope of work
included a series of customdesign
touchscreen applications covering a wide
range of topics in the fields of Science
and Technology the Islamic inventions
touchcreen gives access to a large
repository of inventions and discoveries
by Islamic scholars of different
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eras the golden ratio touchscreen
explores the role of Fibonacci who was
the first to introduce Arabic numerals
to the West it also highlights the
connection between the Fibonacci numbers
and the golden ratio shows examples of
the golden ratio in nature art and
architecture and let users experiment
with numbers to create their own
geometries based on the golden
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ratio
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the human anatomy touch wall is a
portrait mounted 56in touchscreen
whereby user drags an onscreen
magnifying glass over an illustrated
human body revealing early Islamic
knowledge of human
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anatomy
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the Muslim polymath touchs screen honors
the many Muslim Scholars who have
contributed to signs which is still of
significance today the application shows
a 3D Recreation of the House of Wom
wisdom a scholarly institution founded
in Baghdad in the 9th century visitors
are invited to meander through a number
of rooms in the building and meet
representations of 40 Scholars who
introduce themselves to the user with
voice
over I'm alzar Kali an astronomer I made
many observations on the positions and
movements of celestial bodies and
invented new astronomy
instruments Muslim Scholars were
knowledgeable in the science of herbal
medicine this touchscreen application
emphasizes the role of Muslim scholars
in the field and features a lexicon of
medicinal plants and their
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uses
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Islamic architecture is
world-renowned three large touchs
screens deal with architectural elements
well-renowned sights and arabisc
patterns in
architecture the touchscreens are
mounted next to each other with
complimenting screen design in order to
create the appearance of a seamless
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presentation the first pharmacist's
touchscreen presents a number of
Scholars who were experts in
pharmaceutical science The skillfully
Illustrated interface makes use of the
parallx principle which creates the
illusion of a 3D space users navigate
content by scrolling horizontally
Through The Parallax illustration and
touching items and people of
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Interest
the virtual books touchcreen presents
the original illustrations and texts of
Al jazer seminal book of knowledge of
ingenious
devices cryptography was an important
application for skilled Muslim
mathematicians the touchscreen
application teaches users about the
origins of encryption and lets them EXP
experiment with the basic principles of
cryptography
roots of technology is a timeline
application displaying several hundred
entries on Islamic contributions to
science and technology it reveals how
inventions and discoveries originating
in the Islamic world were often falsely
attributed to Western Scholars centuries
later the Western World adopted Arabic
numerals as the standard but why was it
the Arabic numeral system that Pro to be
better than the Roman and Babylonian
systems the numeral systems touch screen
lets users experiment and calculate with
the three different number systems to
find out for
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themselves
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the iban batuta game touchcreen
challenges users to travel in the
footsteps of iban batuta through the
world of the 14th century the goal is to
pick up five Treasures on the way in
order to move players need to answer
several multiple choice questions
correctly but watch out the Black Death
is
looming
at the exit of the exhibition the quiz
touchcreen allows visitors to see if
they've memorized the most important
facts the quiz draws from an expandable
database of over 100 questions and
displays them randomly after 10
questions it compares the user score to
the average score of others in their age
group and
gender the two Cape Town companies faced
a number of challenges in the course of
the project the main being a very tight
deadline of 6 months for design and
production of all 21 exhibits key
Technologies used in the project had to
be acquired and brought to Perfection
rapidly such as building the multi-touch
table Hardware last but not least the
display of content in both English and
Arabic presented an interesting design
challenge considering Arabic is read
from right to left and back to front the
development team eventually created a
genuine custom Arabic text display
function in Adobe Flash as simply
ranging the text right did not render
the Arabic correctly has we discovered
some way into the
project
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