Exhibit Overview

A Kinect system that enables visitors to stand inside an animated hurricane scene, depicting some of the effects of extreme weather. Visitors can get a sense of scale for what a mild, medium, or severe day with wind or coastal flooding would be like. All 3 different intensity levels of storm scenarios live in a single environment.

User Experience

Experience is only activated by a visitor stepping into a delineated area. When visitors step inside a defined area, the screen is activated and the game starts, and the visitors see themselves standing inside a simulated hurricane environment. The intensity of the hurricane grows as the game progresses.

This interactive is the predecessor to Hurricane Hindsight Game and include a prompt at the end of the experience to inform visitors to move to the Hurricane Hindsight (Exhibit III) to learn about Hurricane Preparedness

Storyboard

The storm is anonymous and reflects 3 different levels of intensity: mild-medium-severe. Storm elements include wind, flying debris, leaves, wood, rain, storm surge, waves, etc., as the fundamentals of building a realistic hurricane environment.

Design and Iterate

I built the environment based on the Florida Coastline scene that is a residential location near Miami Beach, and a normal single-family home rather than a high rise is preferred by the clients.

Attractor Mode

An instructional UI animation loops when no one is standing inside the game detecting area. When people approach, they follow the instruction animation and step inside the defined area, and the screen is then activated. The Wild Weather AR game begins.

Exhibit Overview

Hurricane Hindsight aims to challenge visitors to think about their information sources and the decision to evacuate or not, at key points during the days and hours before a hurricane makes landfall.

As visitors approach the kiosk, consisting of two separate stations, each of which is a dual-screen application, whereby the top screen displays different types of footage, media, clips, etc. of a storm forming and traveling toward the Bahamas.
The bottom screen is reserve for touch interaction to allow visitors to make choices about what media to view, and how to move forward in the experience. Visitors need to choose a source of information, a process that information, and then make a decision in a short amount of time. A countdown clock keeps the pressure on.