Interactive systems - BioLab

SOIL FORMATION

By assigning building blocks in correct order the user learns how nature builds up nutrient containing soil.

Audience: families, pupils, studentsn

Use:
The users find five different building blocks (natural materials such as rock chips, moss, flowers, branches or bark embedded in
synthetic resin) on the selection surface.

The user places those objects on a bare rock surface and tries to find the correct order to „enable“ nature to build soil rich in humus. The objects are equipped with tiny chips which the system recognises and provides information about each object.

Parallely the animation on screen shows how the soil slowly builds up, until meadows and forests develop.

Delivery:
Hardware & Software, console structure. Prior determination which building blocks are to be used.
Console design can be adapted to the customer‘s needs.

Delivery time: 2-4 months

Reference installation:
Gesäuse National Park (Styria / A)

ANIMAL EVOLUTION

By changing biological and climatic factors the users learn how those influenced the development of species.

Audience: families, pupils, studentsn

Use:
The display shows the archetype of a prior (together with the customer) defined animal.

Five interconnected cogwheels can be turned by the visitors. Each of them stands for one factor influencing the evolution of creature: Time, food, climate, skeleton structure, and habitat.

If one factor is changed it will have an impact on the others. On screen a lifelike computer animation shows how the creature changes according to the determined factors.

Delivery:
Hardware & Software, console structure.
Prior determination of which species and which influencing factors are to be applied. Console design can be adapted to the customer‘s
needs.

Delivery time: 3-5 months

Reference installation:
Natural History Museum, Vienna (A)