Multimedia programming, electronics and audio components
Mystus was contracted to create 2 interactive kiosks and an audio installation for the Aspen Heritage Center in Aspen, Colorado.
The kiosks provided a multimedia experience that allowed the visitor via touch screen and keyboard to answer survey questions and read the answers of others, flip through the town’s photo archive, view all the exhibits including an interactive panorama of three rooms, and send a postcard to a friend. A unique 
challenge of these kiosks was that all the exhibits on the top floor be accessible on the ground floor, in order to fulfil the requirements of wheelchair access to all exhibit content. This challenge was met through the interactive panoramas of the upstairs museum spaces and digital copies of the wall panels.
Integrated into the themed structures in one of the galleries is an audio experience that has bird sounds emanating from 
four Aspen trees. When the visitor touches a tree a story by a famous Aspen personality is heard. Mystus used microprocessor technology to coordinate the activities of a CD audio player according to the state of the capacitive sensors embedded in the trees. Mystus recorded and edited the audio stories using professional voice talent, and sourced the bird sounds.
Timeframe: Autumn 2001
Used Skills: Programming, Onscreen graphic design, Electronics, Audio