In my thesis I am studying the history of Central Park to find out how to educate people about the park’s history and public debates surrounding it through a series of small interactions in order to connect people to use and love the park

1. Your Central Park

2. Educate people about the park’s
history through a series of small
interactions in order to connect
people to use and love the park

3. Central Park Parks &
Domains
Museums
Education

4. America’s first Disney Land
Research | Central Park
Central Park Conservatory tour guide

5. Research | Central Park
Central Park History
Community Public Debate
& Classes
Urban Park
Planning
The Park and the People: A History of Central Park
by Rosenzweig, Roy, and Elizabeth Blackmar

6. Research | Museums
The roles museums
traditionally hold are to
collect and preserve

7. “The post museum actively seeks to
share power with the communities
it serve… Instead of transmitting
knowledge... the post museum listens
Research | Museums
and responds sensitively”
New Museum Theory and Practice p. 19

8. “What electronic technology does
in the museum is open the crack in
time beyond what would otherwise
be an array of static, silent artifacts
Research | Museums
with interpretive text”
New Museum Theory and Practice p. 141

9. Research | Education
M-learning is a combination
of e-learning with mobile
technologies

10. Focus on the
natural history
of the setting
Experiencing the Past through the Senses: An M-Learning Game at Archaeological Park
Research | Education
Show the diverse
meanings a
place has
Investigations &
representations

11. Research | Education
Gamification
the application of game elements
and game design techniques to
non-game problems

12. Players Goals Rules
Research | Education

13. Precedents

14. Precedents | Central Park Application

15. Precedents | Grand Central Application

16. Prototypes

17. Prototype 1

18. Prototype 2

19. Liked the idea of quests
Prototype 2 | User testing
UX issues
Customization options
More tourist targeted

20. Audience Research

21. Audience

22. Audience

23. Audience

24. Audience

25. Audience

26. More Prototypes

27. Prototype 3

28. Testers were more eager and
interested in this prototype. The
said that it feels less heavy, more
personal and less like a tour book
Prototype 3 | User testing
Customization options
Bring in quests

29. Prototype 4

30. Planned for next week with
daily and weekly users of
Prototype 4 | User testing
Central Park

31. Personas

37. Experience Video

39. Thank you