ABSTRACT
The Nauticus Shipbuilding Company is being used in classrooms as part of the museum’s curricular outreach. A single-user kiosk presentation such as Nauticus is a common way to present multimedia in a museum or other public site. Because of the need to accommodate large groups, multimedia in museums is also presented in a group format, where a number of people control the action on the screen. The writer’s primary involvement occurs during the first two stages of development, project definition and design/preproduction, but the writer is also often called in during production to make last-minute changes. Many of the challenges facing the developers of The Nauticus Shipbuilding Company are common to media development for museums and other public sites. The design objective of Nauticus is to provide museum visitors with an interactive environment in which to explore how ships are built for specific missions. This piece uses technical information that must be precisely accurate.
