Li-Ming Hillman

Interactive Video Experience

An interactive video experience that lets children face the hard choices people made during the Second World War.

Client
Het Hornemannhuis
Year
2024–2025
Role
Group Leader, UX/UI Designer, Full-Stack Developer
Tools
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Node.js, WebSockets
The Hornemannhuis experience shown on a monitor and a phone.

Het Hornemannhuis is a museum based in Eindhoven. They wish to make young visitors understand, not only be told, how difficult the choices were for people living through the Second World War. We designed a film that pauses at key moments and hands the decision to the audience, who answer together from their own phones while the story plays on the big screen. The story unfolds based on a voting system.

Flowchart showing how the screen and the visitors' phones move through the experience.
Flowchart displaying the journey based on decisions
Monitor screen showing the game code visitors enter on their phones.Phone screen for entering the game code.
Joining session
Monitor screen while the video plays.Phone screen telling the visitor to watch the screen.
Watching story
Monitor screen presenting a decision to the audience.Phone screen with the answer options.
Choosing response
Monitor screen showing how the group answered.
Displaying result
Monitor screen during the continued story.
Continuing story following majority's decision
Result

The finished experience ran on Het Hornemannhuis's own screen and Wi-Fi, letting a full room of visitors (~50) join from their phones and experience the journey together.