Inside Design Stories

The UX design team discusses
the creation of new viewing experiences.

What style of new and innovative viewing experience can we create for an exhibition space? And what kind of content can we develop in that encounter that will allow the visitor to learn more about the cultural properties yet have fun at the same time?

In the early stages of the planning and development of the exhibition, “An Investigation with Mihotoke (Buddhist statues),” team members brainstormed a number of interesting ideas featuring 8K monitor technology, such as viewing statues from the perspective of a ladybug and perusing exhibits while listening to a curator’s audio description of Buddhist statues. Out of this, the most inspirational concept proved to be one involving the use of the penlight which professional curators use.

After some deliberation, a final decision was reached to provide visitors with an opportunity to simulate a technique that curators actually use when investigating the materials and details in statues, by highlighting certain parts using a special penlight. In this experience, visitors shine light from a torch-like device onto parts of a 3D statue image on a monitor and explore it from different angles, letting their curiosity run free.