SUMMARY

Name of Production: The Nauticus Shipbuilding Company
Writer: Steven Barney
Developers: Tarragon Interactive, Chedd-Angier Production Co.
Audience: General
Medium: Computer hard drive in kiosk setting
Location: Nauticus: National Maritime Center, Norfolk, Virginia
Subject: Shipbuilding
Goals: Entertain, teach
Architecture: Simulation, hierarchical branching

The script samples and illustrations used in this chapter are courtesy of Chedd-Angier Production Company. 1994 Chedd-Angier Production Company.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION AND BACKGROUND

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The Nauticus Shipbuilding Company is an interactive museum kiosk program that introduces users to basic concepts of shipbuilding. The program is run on a computer's hard drive accessed by users touching images or menu items on the touchscreen monitor. The computer and monitor are housed in a stand-alone kiosk in the museum's main exhibit hall. Near the kiosk is a wall of graphic and text information on shipbuilding that supports the kiosk program. The Nauticus Shipbuilding Company is also being used in classrooms as part of the museum's curricular outreach.

Figure 14-1: Top screen: From the attract program for The Nauticus Shipbuilding Company. Bottom screen: Where the user chooses hulls. (The original color images for these screen shots and others in the book are available on the Writing for Multimedia and the Web CD-ROM in the Chapter 14 area of the "Chapters" section.)