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Top Ten Time Machine
Client
Date
May 2011Location
Cooperstown, NYTags
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Interactive tower acts as a time machine for baseball statistics, allowing visitors to warp back in time to find record-breaking moments, historic milestones, and compare player statistics.
From streaks to shutouts, the newest exhibit at the Baseball Hall of Fame, One for the Books, celebrates the superlative moments in America’s baseball history. Located in the center of a gallery that provides visitors new perspectives on the pinnacles of baseball, the Top Ten Time Machine rewards curious fans with a comprehensive look at top ten lists.
The physical design of the Top Ten Tower consists of two sets of displays, each part serving a different function in the visitor experience. From a distance, the poster area in the top half of the tower acts as a beacon for visitors by displaying bold imagery that correlates to activity happening at the user interface level. The interactive touchscreen on the lower half contains a wellspring of interactive baseball statistics going back to the earliest days of baseball. A timeline provides great flexibility for exploring over a century of statistics while milestones highlight the big changes in baseball history. Each player is supplemented with images and background information while each statistic is supported with definitions and curatorial explanations. From Babe Ruth’s sacred home-run benchmark to the more esoteric stats, the Top Ten Time Machine is rich enough for the baseball aficionado but simple enough for the fledgling fan.
Press & Awards
“Baseball HOF kicks off season with new exhibit,” News Channel 2 WKTV Utica, Mike Levin, June 2011The centerpiece of the exhibit is the Top Ten Tower, which shows statistics in many categories throughout the years and uses state of the art technology. ‘You can go ahead and look at any point in history, any record you want, any category and see who the all time leader was,’ says Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelson. ‘So it allows you to go back and say, I was born in 1964, I wonder who was leading in doubles in 1964. So it's a lot of fun for fans.’
Credits
- Lead Designer
- Matt Sundstrom
- Designers
- Sara Siri, Laurie Hotovy
- Physical Designer
- Daniel Meyers
- Technology Director
- Thomas Wester
- Developers
- Oliver McGinnis, Matthew Fargo
- Prototype Developer
- Zach Doe
- Lead Systems Engineer
- David Brewer
- Lead Integration Engineer
- Matt Arnold
- Producer
- Michael Pittman
- Content Strategist
- Scott Smith
- Quality Assurance
- Michael Neault
- A/V Integration
- Ancora Productions
- Exhibition Design
- Baseball Hall of Fame
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