The Application Of The Interactive Design Display At The Museum

For modern museums, the high technology based dynamic display can no longermeet the exhibition requirement, because the audience still plays a passive role in thisinformation transmission process, which is in essential no different than the traditionalinformation transmission mode. However, the development of interactive design changesmuseums’ exhibition mode significantly. Interactive design encourages the audience toparticipate in the exhibition, and shifts the traditional information transmission mode inwhich the audience takes in exhibition information passively to a two-way transmissionmode in which the audience is able to appreciate, explore, process and learn informationthrough the interactive experience.This thesis aims to study the theories and practical cases regarding the interactivedesign in museum exhibition. The thesis introduces the concept and theories of museumexhibition and interactive design, summarizes the current status of China’s museumexhibition, analyzes the relationship between the organizing party and the participatingparty of interactive design, and discusses the importance and inevitability of interactivedesign in museum exhibition and its classification, practical methods, and the technologyinvolved through comparing and classifying the practical cases of contemporary museumexhibition. The author hopes this explorative study will make a contribution to making thetheories and methods of interactive design in museum exhibition more systematic.