As many of my colleagues have mentioned, the Natural History Museum does a pretty good job of including interactive elements into the exhibits. Many of those interactive elements are touch screens with step-by-step quizzes, videos, or games to play that teach the visitors about the subject in that exhibit.
I am analyzing one of those touch screens from The Human Animal exhibit. This exhibit is relatively new and very interactive. The entire time we were there, children were running around and playing with the different parts of the exhibit. The specific touch screen I looked at and played with for a while is called "Body Language."
Body Language was a quiz that tested the visitor's ability to recognize different types of body language by just looking at a solid human cartoon character make different expressions. We did not see the face. We only saw how the body moved. From there, we got 3 choices of different expressions the human might be feeling considering the situation described. One you chose the right answer, it congratulated you, and you moved onto the next question. As the game went on, it got more difficult. Instead of seeing an entire human outline, we eventually only got to see a dotted outline of the body.
The game was fun, interactive, and challenging. The test got more difficult as it went on which added a larger challenge and made me want to continue playing the game. There was no sound, so the game only required the use of 2 senses: touch and sight.
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