joshua kery

Your Story Audio Booth

Bespoke Audio Booth

Screen shot of user interface for editing an audio clip, with buttons to playback the clip, trim its length, and re-record. — Editing page.

WHAT

Museum Interactive

WHEN

June 2024

MY ROLE

Developed Visitor-Ready Software

TOOLS

Unity
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OVERVIEW

In a bespoke audio booth, visitors record their voice in response to prompts about York County's history.

Screenshot of page with six text prompts for visitors to respond to. Prompts include for example 'What is your most vivid York County memory?'

The first page of the experience, which welcomes visitors with a set of text prompts for their recording to choose from, as well as set of two example oral histories to preview before creating their own recording.

VISITOR EXPERIENCE

A short, personal story about York County

Visitors introduce themselves to the archive and record their voice.

Graphic showing a microphone connected to the image below.

Recording page, with recording underway

After, visitors edit their recordings with a custom editor.

Editing page

Finally, visitors share their recordings with the museum and optionally include their names and emails.

MOTION DESIGN

I designed and developed the motion design for this interactive, including interactions around pagination, on-screen microphone controls, and editing controls.

Transition between prompt and recording pages

TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS

Directus communication for storing visitor audio

The interactive sends visitor-produced audio and metadata to a custom endpoint in a CMS, built with Directus and hosted on the local network.

Screenshot of page with text input field and on screen keyboard for visitor email entry.

Email entry page, which visitors use to optionally share their email with the museum and/or receive a copy of their audio

On startup, the interactive also pulls its set of visitor text prompts from this CMS.

The first page of the experience with six text prompts, which are sourced dynamically from a local CMS that museum staff can access and change on the fly.