CoLab Digital Media student produces award-winning science education app

8 Jun 2015

"Skin and Bones" superimposes virtual flesh on skeletons in Smithsonian museum exhibit.

Fourth year Digital Media student Diana Marques was recognized by the American Alliance of Museums for her mobile application Skin and Bones, which won the AAM’s Gold Media and Technology MUSE Award.

The app, developed for her doctoral work, superimposes virtual representations upon real museum exhibits, allowing the museum visitor to interactively learn about natural history with 3D digital experiences.

Marques is conducting research at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., focusing on augmented reality and the museum visitor’s experience. She was recently invited to speak about her work at the National Academy of Sciences.

To learn more:

Skin and Bones: the App

New app adds virtual flesh to Victorian-era bone exhibit, Smithsonian Science News

App review: See Natural History skeletons before they were just bones, Washington Post