Beluga Kiosk

I recently developed a touchscreen kiosk for the Vancouver Aquarium. I was tasked with building an actionscript based audio analysis display, which was to run on an HP TouchSmart.

The kiosk is centered around showing users that underwater noise pollution is a serious issue facing marine wildlife in Canada's Arctic.

We achieved this by allowing users to overlay spectrographs (visual representations of sound frequency) and play audio simultaneously to see and hear how beluga sounds interact with marine noise pollution.

This was my first large scale project using a fully MVC class structure in AS3. I could not have been happier with the results. This project taught me the value of using proper framework structure for developing applications. The MVC framework made prototyping and changes to functionality a breeze to deal with. From what I have heard the kiosk has been quite a success at the Vancouver Aquarium's recent Arctic exhibit.