Prototype/Outcome

Our “room” is the entryway/ coat rack but to the guests we do not want to seem like an exhibit ourselves. We will simply act as the “welcome” area to the Haunted [Smart] Home Exhibit that introduces guests as they walk in and take their backpacks. They will see a computer screen with an introduction and a button that takes them to a form where they can “leave a note on the wall”. They will enter in some information about themselves and answer some questions that prompt them to reveal insights about their fears of technology and interests in specific exhibits. Once they fill out the form and drop their bag, we will direct them to the exhibits where they will use their phones to tap into the “RFID” tags at each exhibit, which will allow us to unknowingly track their location and time spent at each exhibit. We will then use this information and AI to generate a “report” and a thermal printer to provide a physical artifact of their time at the exhibit. We will fold it in a letter type format and drop it in their bags. When they open their backpack later that day, they find this piece of information about themselves and are stopped to think about how it got in there, how it knows all of that information about them. At the end of the report, there will be a QR code that links to our website that explains our exhibit.