This application is an augmented reality experience at Four Freedoms Park in NYC. It takes the user through a scavenger hunt through the park to find Martha Graham's 19 poses of empowerment and learn how they relate to Eleanor Roosevelt.
We chose to focus on the absence of Eleanor Roosevelt at Four Freedoms Park in New York City, despite her active political participation during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency. Our goal was to communicate this participation using Augmented Reality and the power of dance. We chose to work with Martha Graham's choreography as she the first dancer to be invited to perform at the White House, invited by Eleanor Roosevelt.
This project was a team effort between myself and two other students at Cornell Tech. I took on the following roles during this process:
Once we determined our technological capabilities, we finalized two potential design ideas:
1. A scavenger hunt through the park to find the models of the dancers and learn about Eleanor Roosevelt.
I then created wireframes in InVision for each of these workflows so we could better visualize the interactions we were asking the users to go through.
After talking and testing with our users, we learned that the card matching game could get tiring and frustrating, and may cause users to abandon the experience before finishing it due to how long it would take.
We also found that there were technical limitations with implementing this at the park. In order to properly separate each panel as a 'card' for this game, we would have needed to put markers on each one. This was not something the park officials wanted as a permanent addition to the space. Therefore, we began design and implementation of the scavenger hunt.
The first prototype was created in Figma as shown in the video below.
After reviewing our prototype above we realized we were not taking enough advantage of the 3D space, particularly with the poses that we presented to users throughout the experience. So we decided to bring the 19 Poses of Empowerment to life using 3D models and animation. I created a figure in Maya that I then rigged in order to manipulate the figure into different poses.
On right is Pose #14 from Martha Graham's 19 poses of empowerment, and directly below it is the model created in Maya showcasing the same.
This is currently a work in progress, however these are the results we have achieved so far. The app detects the user's location, and when they arrive at the correct place, i.e. Four Freedoms Park, the diamonds (pins to collect) are spawned using relative positioning.
The tools used in this development were:
An AR experience at NYC's Four Freedoms Park to bring to life Eleanor Roosevelt's work using dance.
This application is an augmented reality experience at Four Freedoms Park in NYC. It takes the user through a scavenger hunt through the park to find Martha Graham's 19 poses of empowerment and learn how they relate to Eleanor Roosevelt.
We chose to focus on the absence of Eleanor Roosevelt at Four Freedoms Park in New York City, despite her active political participation during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency. Our goal was to communicate this participation using Augmented Reality and the power of dance. We chose to work with Martha Graham's choreography as she the first dancer to be invited to perform at the White House, invited by Eleanor Roosevelt.
This project was a team effort between myself and two other students at Cornell Tech. I took on the following roles during this process:
Once we determined our technological capabilities, we finalized two potential design ideas:
1. A scavenger hunt through the park to find the models of the dancers and learn about Eleanor Roosevelt.
2. A game where each panel at Four Freedoms Park was a card, and users could flip them over to find matching dance poses to unlock quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt.
I then created wireframes in InVision for each of these workflows so we could better visualize the interactions we were asking the users to go through.
After talking and testing with our users, we learned that the card matching game could get tiring and frustrating, and may cause users to abandon the experience before finishing it due to how long it would take.
We also found that there were technical limitations with implementing this at the park. In order to properly separate each panel as a 'card' for this game, we would have needed to put markers on each one. This was not something the park officials wanted as a permanent addition to the space. Therefore, we began design and implementation of the scavenger hunt.
This is the high fidelity prototype created in Figma for the scavenger hunt.
Users can go through the park and collect poses from each of the pins receive a quote by Eleanor Roosevelt, and share it along with the pose with their friends.
The models were created, rigged and animated using Maya. On left is Pose #14 from Martha Graham's 19 poses of empowerment. On the right is the model created in Maya showcasing the same.
This is currently a work in progress, however these are the results we have achieved so far. The app detects the user's location, and when they arrive at the correct place, i.e. Four Freedoms Park, the diamonds (pins to collect) are spawned using relative positioning.
The tools used in this development were:
This application is an augmented reality experience at Four Freedoms Park in NYC. It takes the user through a scavenger hunt through the park to find Martha Graham's 19 poses of empowerment and learn how they relate to Eleanor Roosevelt.
We chose to focus on the absence of Eleanor Roosevelt at Four Freedoms Park in New York City, despite her active political participation during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency. Our goal was to communicate this participation using Augmented Reality and the power of dance. We chose to work with Martha Graham's choreography as she the first dancer to be invited to perform at the White House, invited by Eleanor Roosevelt.
This project was a team effort between myself and two other students at Cornell Tech. I took on the following roles during this process:
Once we determined our technological capabilities, we finalized two potential design ideas:
1. A scavenger hunt through the park to find the models of the dancers and learn about Eleanor Roosevelt.
2. A game where each panel at Four Freedoms Park was a card, and users could flip them over to find matching dance poses to unlock quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt.
I then created wireframes in InVision for each of these workflows so we could better visualize the interactions we were asking the users to go through.
After talking with our users, we learned that the card matching game could get tiring and frustrating, and may cause users to abandon the experience before finishing it due to how long it would take. We also found that there were technical limitations with implementing this at the park.
In order to properly separate each panel as a 'card' for this game, we would have needed to put markers on each one. This was not something the park officials wanted as a permanent addition to the space.
Therefore, we began design and implementation of the scavenger hunt.
This is the high fidelity prototype created in Figma for the scavenger hunt.
Users can go through the park and collect poses from each of the pins receive a quote by Eleanor Roosevelt, and share it along with the pose with their friends.
The models were created, rigged and animated using Maya. On left is Pose #14 from Martha Graham's 19 poses of empowerment. On the right is the model created in Maya showcasing the same.
This is currently a work in progress, however these are the results we have achieved so far. The app detects the user's location, and when they arrive at the correct place, i.e. Four Freedoms Park, the diamonds (pins to collect) are spawned using relative positioning.
The tools used in this development were:
