Discovery roomsat

Musée des Confluences

WHAT?

• Explore, wonder over science and society issues

• Scenarisation, space design• Interactive, hands-on experience• Cooperative learning• Customisation• Innovating technologies

WHERE?

HOW?

• Accessibility for disabled visitors• Many group slots• Average duration: 1h• 15 to 20 visitors at the same time• Animators as often as posible

WHO?

• One project manager (waiting for help…)

• Closely working with the animators (one for each discovery room)

• A scientific committee• Erasme innovation center

FIRST TOPICS

• How to create accessible websites?

• Feeding the cities of the world• Me and my voice • Space odyssey

New subjects every year…

A first Discovery room experiment2006-2007

RFID-tagged Stones and virtual animators

Library, Inventory

Tactile globe

The lab

ESPECE(S) D’ANIMAL! (Fall 2007)

First Multitouch table

Experiment

A second Discovery room experimentFall 2008

RFID-taggedpapas and virtual animators

Find the potato among three plants

Create a new potato

Video

game

History of the Potato

Multi

Touch

table

If you were an Andean farmer…

BOITE VOCALE (in progress)

Special

focus on

accessibility