● North Carolina Museum of Art · 2024
Samurai — armour you can assemble with your hands.
A touchscreen exhibit that lets visitors build a full suit of samurai armour piece by piece, with annotated context — placed beside the real armour cases.
02Problem
NCMA wanted visitors to slow down at the samurai armour cases. Static labels weren't holding people.
03Approach
We modelled four armour configurations, built a step-by-step assembly UI, and authored short context cards for each piece. The interaction is the lesson — every hardware part of the armour has a reason.
04Outcome
Dwell time at the case set tripled vs. the prior installation.
—Selected frames
—Selected stack
- Unity
- TouchDesigner
- Brightsign
- C#
- Photogrammetry
3× prior
Dwell-time lift
4 historically distinct
Armour sets
2024
Year
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