The entrance ticket also known as a Smarticket, is almost like your own memory card to the Museum. The ticket works with a radio-frequency identification chip within the ticket. There are over 50 sensor points around the exhibition enabling visitors to automatically record and store artifacts. Once you have scanned your Smarticket on the sensor points you can log into your personal space on the British Music Experience website and view the content you have stored. Recordings that you can create, dance videos and all the music moments can be stored and kept so you can revisit your music experience. Some of the artifacts will only work once you have scanned your Smarticket for example in the interactive studio you can only begin to play and learn an instrument once the machine has recognized a user is trying to engage with the interface. The image below shows a logged in user, viewing the content that had been saved within the ticket.

British Music Experience

The British Music Experience, is an ongoing exhibition held within London’s O2. It features a historical view of popular British music since 1944 to the music we are surrounded by today. It is an all interactive based exhibition where the user has control over the participation within the room. I visited this exhibition in order to write my essay on one interactive designed environment.

The image to the right shows my logged in user account, viewing the content that had been saved within my Smarticket.

The image to the left, 'Hey DJ', can best be described as a Dj’s interactive record box.
It is an easy to use, intuitive touch screen, which enables the user to pick and choose from a range of records by flicking through, and picking the record they want. Once the user has chosen, the song will play and information appears on the screen. Sliding your finger up or down will give you more or less information about the song, the artist and authorship.