This Participatory/Contributory activity within the communications exhibition at the Liberty Science Center www.lsc.org does a nice job of keeping the interaction simple while delivering an engaging experience. From the hardware used and related wear and tear you can tell this is not a new interactive installation but it’s well done. Visitors step inside a green screen booth
where they select one of four languages to explorer. Once selected (I choose Chinese) a language coach walks you through pronouncing a few basic phases which are recorded by a video camera and microphone. This 1st part of the activity is about 3 minutes and is fulfilling enough to stand on its own, but there is more. When you leave the booth a large projection screen allows curious onlooker to watch the final end product which is a combination of your recording and prerecord footage of another character. The system edits together a two way conversation between a character (a Chinese woman) and the your recorded segments, allowing the final product to become dialog. This conversational payoff adds contextual relevance to the recently learned words and leaves a lasting impression that helps reinforce the objectives of this activity.
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