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I visited American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) on Saturday morning as a field trip of Sensor Workshop class. We went on a tour to the new Hall of Human Origin exhibit and to AMNH's shop where they are making the objects for displaying such as bear, ostrich, gorilla and shark. (I don't know the exact names of them, but it looked like that.)
There were several tactile exhibits, and I took some memos about what is a problem and how we can improve these things to make visitors use and understand better.
 
(MEET RELATIVES)
- Too much info: It shows too much at once. How about make depths of info in the page?
- Obivious design: It is hard to figure out where are buttons to proceed.
- Deeper layers: It will be better if it gives us more information.
(THE TREE OF LIFE)
- Same problem with the above example,
- Poor navigation: we need go back to the first page or the previous page or more.
- Unclear diagram: the left circle of top-right corner seems the path of the creature's evolution, but no explanation about it. It will be better if the simple animation is added.
(DISCOVERY FOSSIL DETECTIVES) - no pictures.
- Right one was broken. Should be checked everyday or make robust.
(early TOOLS)
- Simple animations of how tools are made will be helpful.
- It's hard to make a connection between skulls and tools. Using different color schemes will be helpful.
- The words about time periods are hard to read.
- It's hard to make a connection between this picture and the displays below.
- Simple interaction by buttons and LEDs will be helpful.
We moved to artist's shop.
 
A devil fish (or ray) is taking some rest from exhibition and they are making a replica.
Real bones are used to make exhibits. (bear)
The real pictures of various motions are used.
 
(giant primitive man? gorilla?)
 
Ostrich which lived in Madagascar until human arrived there.
 
Very large exhibit.
 
They made a miniature, and also refers the real pictures of it.
My favorite one in the shop.
 Humor sense of them.
Here is the photo set where you can see larger pictures:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/risknfun/sets/72157600040406696/
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