Dr. Leilah Lyons on Embodied Interaction in Museums
Channel: Mar Hicks
Date: 2013-03-18

Dr. Leilah Lyons is a professor of computer science and the learning sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In this talk she discussed how embodied interaction--the ability to learn with one's whole body--is an important tool for designing digital museum exhibits. This clip describes an innovative polar bear exhibit at the Brookfield Zoo that teaches patrons about global warming. The clip is from a longer talk delivered in the Humanities Department's Digital Humanities Speaker Series at Illinois Institute of Technology.