Peter W. Alt

Rodin Museum

iOS iBeacons Drupal User Experience

Creating a location-aware app that allows visitors to explore more information about the objects nearby using iBeacons.
By enabling staff to easily enter and edit content in a content management system, the Philadelphia Museum of Art undertook its first step into their mobile platform strategy.
The app also caches all content locally, to avoid load times in galleries where the WIFI signal might be too weak to stream media.
The app has been deployed using the enterprise developer program to in-house units.

A is for Art Museum

iOS iBeacons User Experience

Treasure hunt for kids and families throughout the whole Museum. The app displays the users location and always finds the closest object nearby (using iBeacons).
Objects can only be unlocked in the gallery and once unlocked, it engages the user to look back at the art.
A is for Art Museum was awarded with the 2016 American Alliance of Museums (AAM) MUSE Gold-Award in the category Education and Outreach.

• Watch a video about it!

• How The Philadelphia Museum of Art is changing the way people interact with art, Technical.ly Philly, May 2016

• A is for App: Art Museum changing visitor experience with tech, Philadelphia Business Journal, June 2016

• Philadelphia Museum of Art brings back interactive family program, PhillyMag, July 2015

Breaking the Silence Study Table

Touch-Table Concept-Design User Experience Wireframes

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights’ Breaking the Silence gallery is a quiet respectful space where visitors can learn about many mass atrocities — some well–known, others previously hidden. The gallery helps visitors to understand that whenever human rights violations occur, we have a role to play by breaking the silence about them, and the very act of learning about and discussing these violations helps to break the silence.

Interactive Horse-Racing-Table

Python Sockets RFID Touch-Table Arduino

Eight users can simulatenously get information about jockeys and horses and place bets. The Hong Kong Jockey Club transformed horse racing into a more social experience with this massive, custom-built 10ft touch-table.
I was responsible for the development of a hardware monitoring and controlling system for both client and server side, user-friendly calibration tools, remote controlled LED und USB management a

Bat.Flight.Viz - Interactive Visualization

Unity3D Cinema4D

Bat.Flight.Viz is an interactive visualization of scientific data for educational purpose. It is designed as an interactive online simulation and available to the public to learn and understand bat flight and aerodynamics.

Souvi - Interactive Exhibit

OpenFrameworks TUIO OSC PureData

Souvi is an interactive, generative, audio-visual multi-touch installation based on synesthesia. It lets users draw with their fingers and interprets their work with sound. It generates a unique experience for every user interacting with the system. Souvi has been awarded with the "Art of Engineering"-Award by Ferchau Engineering in 2010 and has been exhibited across Germany.

Baby's Vision App

iOS AppStore

See how your baby experiences the world and follow along as their vision develops.

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BeaconWalker

iOS iBeacon AppStore

With Beacon Walker developing and troubleshooting location-based apps has never been easier!
Simulate any number of iBeacons and virtually walk through any setup.

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Bikeshare Hero

iOS APIs AppStore

This app displays available bikes and docks for the Philadelphia Bikeshare program (Rideindego) at a glace.
The included widget allows for quick checks without having to launch an app or filter through a list of stations.

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iBeacon management

Laravel SQL APIs

To ensure all of the almost 300 beacons throughout the whole public spaces at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, we needed a tool that could record and map battery levels.
Using Laravel, I built a backend that could track battery status and create maps with beacons that needed batteries to get replaced.

iOS video player

iOS Drupal

To display videos in galleries, iPads have become more and more popular, but we had specific requirements for a touch-to-play video app.
This custom-built video player can loop an attract video file and play the main video file on touch. Videos can easily be swaped out for newer versions using the content management system.

Information Managment for prototype vehicles

SQL Data Mining

Gathering information from a variety of sources and systems, parsing it for specific details, matching software and hardware revisions and generating reports to keep an overview over a fleet of vehicles.

Demo-Visualization

Python Touch-Table

Demo-project for a medical visualization company for trade-shows. The user can drag a lens over a human body and switch between different layers to see either the skelleton structure or muscles.
The app can be used cross-platform and works with a variety of touch inputs.

Wikando - Web Community

Symfony Amazon AWS SQL

Wikando is a community of people who need support and people who want to support others. To engage as many supporters as possible, Wikando focusses on usability and an intuitive way to donate goods and money.
I joined the startup as first full-time developer and was deeply involved in the design and development process.

Mobile Conference App

Symfony SQL

As an easy to use service this web-application is designed to help conference hosts running a conference and visitors navigation through a long list of parallel talks and sessions. The key feature of is the simple integration with existing content management systems, which allows hosts to import existing data with a click.

Capactive Touch Robot

Arduino Hacking

Experimenting with (self-made) sensors and how to process fluctuating readings. The robot would respond to touches and more specific a petting gesture. When receiving strokes it would light up, but the light would deminish without interaction.

Trophy design for lab.30

Hacking Product Design

Since 2001, the lab.30 media art laboratory has become a local spot for experimental art and interaction. The festival presents exciting and experimental art at a very high level. The lab award acknowledges artistic achievements which stand out as exceptional, especially innovative and extraordinarily creative. It supports interdisciplinary and cross-genre work, and wants to encourage experiments and transboundary approaches.