Four—An exit area. This can is a short hallway, leading away from the interaction room. After talking with architecture students and faculty about building design, we came to the conclusion that leading people out to a small hallway or room before dumping them completely outside was a good idea.

This exit hallway is a space where participants are able to decompress, review the experience they have just had, and also give them time and space to formally leave their impressions of the experience, becoming part of a permanent record.

A video journal is the mostly likely record that will be available in the exit hallway, contained in a kiosk that allows participants to pause on their way out of the device and quickly voice their impressions of the experience that are then recorded onto a hard drive for later replay as part of the audio track for the system itself.

     
  Image of Charlie Chaplin looking down at a visitor leaving the CompuObscura. Taken by Cal Poly Architecture class students using class-created model and slide projector, Spring 2004.  
     
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