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A Digital Naturalist
Year
2023
Completed at
Design Incubation Centre
LKCNHM* is an app launched in collaboration with Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum (LKCNHM). An adaptation of Musee*, it is a project originally designed by Hoang Ahn, a 2020 graduate from the Division of Industrial Design. Upon her graduation, the project was incubated at Design Incubation Centre where further developments were made and collaborations with museums were initiated.
Musee* is a digital platform that enhances the museum journey for young visitors using Near Field Communication (NFC) technologies. Similar to a digital treasure hunt, the young visitors are prompted to go around the exhibits tapping on readers with an NFC token that unlock digitally augmented activities on their accompanying adult’s phone. The collaboration project adapts Musee* to complement two existing exhibits at LKCNHM, namely the Heritage Gallery and Alfred Russel Wallace's expeditions, in commemoration of the date of his arrival in Singapore.
With the LKCNHM* app, visitors can experience expeditions of naturalists in Singapore to uncover new scientific discoveries. The app users can tap on NFC tags located around the exhibition to unlock exciting digitally augmented activities on their phones—from packing the essentials for the expeditions to identifying and sorting the specimens. Each activity contains information around a specific exhibit in comprehensible bits for visitors to understand and absorb easily, making learning an enjoyable and engaging experience.