angela pan wong

Rainforest Story

School project

Rainforest Story is a design concept for a mobile application that utilizes augmented reality technology to add an interactive learning experience to a museum exhibit space. Museum visits are engaging, but can also be full of missed educational opportunities when visitors don't read information cards or make the connections intended by exhibit designers. We chose the California Academy of Sciences Rainforest Exhibit as a prototypical museum experience. In our observations of the space, we realized that an educational narrative present in the exhibit space is the biodiversity and the connectedness of living creatures and plants within the rainforest biosphere. However, a common constraint of exhibits containing living organisms is the need to keep animals in separate display cases. Because of these practical reasons, the story of interdependent relationships was very difficult to tell. We saw the usage of a mobile app as a way to tell this story, help conceptually orient visitors, and enrich the museum experience.

Work included storyboarding, user flows, scenarios, multiple design iterations, and various fidelity prototypes.

Done in collaboration with Jamie Diy and Isabel Cheng in Stanford course: The Design of Technologies for Casual Learning