Interactive and Personalized Museum App for Knowledge Representation
Implemented by gamelab.berlin in Collaboration With the Stiftung Humboldt Forum and as Part of the museum4punkt0 Initiative
The project »My Object« deals with games for knowledge transfer. It is intended to offer interactive access to the objects in a museum and fundamentally redefine the engagement with the artworks. The starting point for the development was, that museums often exhibit hundreds of objects and that visitors can often not look at everything, let alone absorb all the information that comes with this diversity. What is unique about »My Object« is, that works are assigned individually. This is based on the personal interests, expectations, and experiences that the visitor has previously entered into the app. The object is then no longer passive behind a showcase but enters into an interactive and entertaining chat dialog with the visitor on their smartphone. Information that cannot be found on any descriptive text and can lead deep into the history of the objects. The relaxed, playful and alternating tonality gives the items liveliness, and questions and answers from the visitors are always directly addressed.
More information about the project is available at gamelab.berlin.
»My Object« went strongly through the media and was presented in more than 100 articles, among others, in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Zeit and Welt, but also Times and ArtNews. Even the German television channels Pro7 and Sat1 reported. That much attention is good for the project, which started at the Badisches Landesmuseum and is available for other museums. Media coverage of the launch in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, WELT, and Deutschlandfunk Kultur can be found in a press clipping.
About gamelab.berlin:
Based on the cultural-theoretical thesis of an »age of games«, gamelab.berlin investigates the phenomenon of games from multiple perspectives. Based on an expanded concept of games, an interdisciplinary laboratory creates a connection between university research and practical design.
Co-founder of gamelab.berlin and MoA member Christian Stein is part of the team that is also designing the digital experience of the exhibition at Humboldt Labor.
»My Object« App. Copyright: gamelab.berlin