How the Internet works? Museum Re-design Project

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How the Internet works?Museum Re-design Project

• Masataka Nakaue
• Chika Ando

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Overview

• Concept
• How the Internet works
• Birds eyes view of the WWW
• Micro-view of the WWW services
• Target Audience
• Middle school student
• Venue
• The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose

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Observation Findings- Childrens Discovery
Museum -

• Effective use of sound and moving objects
• Spatial design for a natural flow of people
• Safety, durability and maintenance
• Take a look take a closer look
• Interact first then read the explanation
• Learn social rules

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Discussion

• Why People go museums
• Satisfy innate curiosity
• Intrinsically motivated to learn
• Seek new experiences
• What is unique about learning in museums
• Large-scale, cutting-edge, hands-on exhibits
• Learning to be constructed over time
• Connect cutting-edge scientists and feature
  scientists

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Concept

• Uncover the inner workings of the Internet
• OSI reference model
• TCP/IP packet communication
• General goals
• Increase basic understanding of the Internet
• Enhance technological literacy and
  problem-solving skills

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Learning goals

1. How packets are created in the OSI reference
   model
2. Port and address in the TCP/IP protocol
3. FTP and HTTP services to publish and browse the
   Internet contents

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Digital Guest Book

• Client side
• Take a photo and write messages
• Set a port number and destination
• Observe encoding process
• Upload and track your packets across the WWW
• Server side
• See decoding process
• Download web-contents

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Design principles

• Mystery and discovery
• Intuitive operation play first then read
• Social interaction within a group
• Narrative facilitated by others
• Visualization tangible graphics
• Contexts reinforcing future experience

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Design challenge

• Usability vs. Learnability
• Bad design deteriorates learnability, but
• Make it tangible vs. show the real architecture
• Museums show a fake
• Continual updating
• Can museums showcase the future?