MW2006 BoW Nomination: Online Exhibition: Biometrics, the body as identity [http://www.cite-sciences.fr/english/ala_cite/expositions/biometrie/index2.

Site: Biometrics, the body as identity
URL: <a href="http://www.cite-sciences.fr/english/ala_cite/expositions/biometrie/index2.php">http://www.cite-sciences.fr/english/ala_cite/expositions/biometrie/index2.php</a>
Institution: Cité des sciences et de l'industrie
Designer[s]: Alain Rabussier - Francoise Tartinville - Catherine Borderie - Roland Topalian - Jeremie Dres - Sophie Chauvin - Stephane Barny (CSUPER)- Gilles Pointeau (CSUPER)
Category: Online Exhibition
Explanation: # New ways of representing museum processes and structures
Visitors entering the “Biometrics: the body as identity” exhibition area can enrol their fingerprints and faces so that they be recognised throughout the exhibition. In this way, they can judge for themselves the advantages and drawbacks of such recognition techniques. The whole exhibition website interface is designed to figure out this experience :
http://www.cite-sciences.fr/english/ala_cite/expositions/biometrie/index2.php

# Innovative ways of complementing physical exhibitions or providing surrogates for physical experiences in on-line only exhibitions
- Games (in french)
href="http://www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/ala_cite/expositions/biometrie/limites.php
- Tactile images (in french) :
http://www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/ala_cite/expositions/biometrie/nonvoyants/images_tactiles.htm

#Effective use of multiple media formats
-Video
http://www.cite-sciences.fr/english/ala_cite/expositions/biometrie/ethique.php (link a biometrics tale )
-Indexed video
http://www.cite-sciences.fr/english/ala_cite/expositions/biometrie/presentation_expo.php (link : exhibition film)
- interactivity
href="http://www.cite-sciences.fr/english/ala_cite/expositions/biometrie/reperes.php (link : is it biometrisable)
and games (see above)

# Imaginative audience participation and engagement of different categories of 'visitors'
- Visite+ is a system of visit personalization. Visite+ proposes the creation of a personal website (a cyberlog of the visit) for every visitor, providing them with a record of their path at the exhibition, their results at activities (photos, quizzes,
etc.), complete exhibition contents and complementary resources (documents,
dossiers, links, etc.).
http://www.cite-sciences.fr/english/ala_cite/expositions/biometrie/visite_plus.php
( code : 965c835e299f4 )
- A second website is proposed to visually handicapped people
http://www.cite-sciences.fr/english/ala_cite/expositions/biometrie/nonvoyants.php (in french)
For deaf people an indexed video in FSL
http://www.cite-sciences.fr/english/ala_cite/expositions/biometrie/presentation_expo (link : exhibition film)

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Nominated by:
Catherine Borderie
Multimedia designer
multimedia production
Cité des sciences et de l'industrie
FRANCE
www: <a href="http://www.cite-sciences.fr">http://www.cite-sciences.fr</a>
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