Marioneta

Marioneta is an installation for the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh which uses the Microsoft Kinect v2 to allow guests to embody a collection of antique puppets in a virtual environment. The focus is on creating an experience wherein elements in the world react to the users’ actions through these puppets. Puppet models in the experience are based on a collection of puppets donated to the museum by Margo Lovelace. The original puppets are carefully exhibited in a large display case on the wall in the museum. Many of the puppets in the museum’s collection are antiques, fragile or valuable and not suited to hands-on play by the museum’s young visitors. Marioneta uses technology to make museum puppets available for imaginative and interesting play. The experience is composed of auto-rotating seasonal stages and season related interactive objects that have visual and audial feedback. Users can throw a pumpkin in fall, pick up an ice ball in winter, play with cowbells in spring, and break a lantern filled with fireflies in summer.

2014
Children's Museum of Pittsburgh
UX Design
Design Goals
Updating an old installation in Children's Museum of Pittsburgh
- Give a chance to kids to become a puppet in a intuitive and simple way.we’ll know our success if the kids enjoy our experience without the moment of confusion. 
- Give a safe playground for playing without fear of right or wrong to kids.we’ll know our success if the kids moves their body freely without hesitation. 
- Avoid using text on the screen. kids will get hard time of reading text. if it needs, we’re going to use large, short words or voice.we’ll know our success if the kids understand how to play with the environment.



Snapshots of user research
Early prototype design
Gesture instruction design
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