Oportunidades Públicas

Designing a Situated Mobile Augmented Reality Exhibition for Communicating Coastal Research Findings

This project aims to design and prototype a situated mobile augmented reality exhibition using smartphones, focused on communicating scientific research results related to coastal phenomena. The exhibition is conceived as a museum-like experience outdoors where users can physically move through different locations and, via their mobile devices, access visualizations, videos, and narrative content explaining wave dynamics, coastal flooding, and associated risks. The project emphasizes experience design, spatial storytelling, and communicative clarity, rather than the development of numerical simulations or scientific modeling.

The work will build upon existing scientific materials—such as simulation videos, images, diagrams, and explanatory texts—which will be reinterpreted through principles of user-centered design and public communication of science. The final outcome will be a low- to mid-fidelity functional prototype implemented in Unity for mobile devices, accompanied by a conceptual exhibition design, a narrative script, and an exploratory user evaluation. The project seeks to strengthen skills in interaction design, situated immersive experience design, and the visual translation of complex scientific knowledge.