STORIES BY
HANNAH LOUISE

Interactive Experience Designer for Museums and Cultural Institutions

Digital experiences should be created with their audiences, be accessible, and share a message. I use audio-visual technology and mobile apps to tell stories as well as foster relationships between cultural institutions and their audiences. Focusing in participatory design, I work with audience members to design and polish experiences before they are released to understand how experiences will be received.

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INTERACTIVE STORYTELLING

Immersive and interactive experiences can be powerful tools for building relationships and communities.

A JERSEY FOR HELMUTT:
A VIDEO GAME DESIGNED TO COMMUNICATE
WITH AUDIENCES

October 2021

After developing an app with the Worcester Art Museum, I explained how other cultural institutions and designers can use this media to build intimate audience relationships.

I competed in ACM's Student Research Competition in the Special Interest Group on Design of Communication's 39th Annual Conference where I placed first with this research.

December 2021

In this research report, I discuss three of the prominent concerns other researchers have voiced as cultural institutions, like historical sites and museums, incorporate interactive and immersive media. I propose that institutions can incorporate common practices from the interactive media and video game industry to design their experiences while keeping these concerns in mind during the process.

I argue that design practices and styles used in the interactive media and video game industry can be used over time to design meaningful experiences for cultural institutions.

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