EcoCentrix app for iPhone and iPad

EcoCentrix is a free interactive app, provided in support of a gallery exhibition at the BargeHouse in London, UK, running from October 22nd until November 11th 2013. The app provides exhibition information to visitors as well as allowing direct interaction with aspects of some of the art exhibits while they are in the gallery.

Visitors are able to send a word to the Word Map installation from anywhere in the building. Once they arrive at the Word Map installation they are able to choose from four different modes of representing the statistically rated words.

In the Active 3D Theatre installation, visitors are asked to momentarily dock their device on a podium in front of the exhibit, and press a start button on their device, to align their device correctly. When they pick it up again, they have taken control of a 3D projected object in the projection space in front of them, using the pitch, roll and yaw of their iOS device.

In the Water installation they are able to control the ripples of a pool of projected water, in a cinema space showing films about water. App users are able to choosing from a library of six water sources from around the world, and then change the sensitivity of the ripples responses to sound in the room, the symmetry of the water imagery, and the brightness of the water.

The app encourages new visitor experiences, as well as new ways for curators and researchers to archive the live gallery experience.