M2M Mobile Museum Guide

The M²M Mobile Museum Guide is a proposal done in collaboration with Jared Lamenzo and Shagun Singh to allow visitors to the American Museum of Natural History to augment their museum experience using Sony’s Playstation portable console.

Due to space constraints, the museum is only able to display limited information about any exhibit.  Furthermore, at any given time, only a small fraction of the museum’s collection can be displayed.  Through a partnership with Sony, the M²M Mobile Museum Guide will create rich interactive experiences that bring to life the valuable artifacts in the museums possession in a way that engages and enhances the educational experience latent in each exhibit.

Visitors will be able to delve deeper into the topics touched upon in the exhibits.  With the M²M Mobile Museum Guide, students can play educational games with other students, like treasure hunts in the museum’s collection, take fun quizzes that cover the core topics of each exhibit, bookmark favorite artifacts on display and later retrieve that list of favorites with links to more information about each artifact on the museum’s website.