Battle Abbey

Widening engagement with AV

Apps / Virtual Tour / Augmented Reality / Animation / Illustration / Concept Development / Location Photography / Editing / Multi-touch programming / Games / Filters / Interfacing / Encoding / Installation

CLIENT

ENGLISH HERITAGE

Working with English Heritage at their Battle Abbey site, AY-PE was commissioned to create innovative AV and apps in response to two prominent issues which EH had identified:

1. Regarding access for those with mobility constraints to inaccessible rooms – making a visit more open to all.

2. Finding a way to engage children more in exploring and uncovering stories about the Abbey – to use apps and tablets to prompt children into looking around, not looking down.

TOUR / TRAIL 01

Virtual Access App

The virtual tour app was designed to make Battle Abbey’s exhibition rooms accessible to all – as several rooms are hard to reach for a number of visitors. With English Heritage, AY-PE storyboarded the tour and commissioned 360 panoramic recordings of the rooms and roof area, along with hi-resolution images of important artefacts and architectural points of interest. Working with the EH brand, AY-PE designed UI / UX, programmed and delivered this clear and intuitive to use, virtual access app. 

TOUR / TRAIL 02

Engaging children

AY-PE designed a children’s app trail to encourage children to explore  Battle Abbey – with a Benedictine Monk as their guide. Using and testing with iBeacons, AY-PE developed a trail where animated monks would trigger onto screen and alert the child to nearby objects or other room-based challenges, giving fun, educational facts to the user about what they’d found.

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TOUR / TRAIL 02

Engaging children

AY-PE designed a children’s app trail to encourage children to explore  Battle Abbey – with a Benedictine Monk as their guide. Using and testing with iBeacons, AY-PE developed a trail where animated monks would trigger onto screen and alert the child to nearby objects or other room-based challenges, giving fun, educational facts to the user about what they’d found.

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TOUR / TRAIL 02

Engaging Children

AY-PE designed a children’s app trail to encourage children to explore  Battle Abbey – with a Benedictine Monk as their guide. Using and testing with iBeacons, AY-PE developed a trail where animated monks would trigger onto screen and alert the child to nearby objects or other room-based challenges, giving fun, educational facts to the user about what they’d found.

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TOUR / TRAIL 03

Creative Learning

As a reward within the app trail, once a child has explored, found and discovered the Abbey’s shields and Coats of Arms, their device will launch into a fun activity where they can digitally design, ‘paint’ and keep their own heraldic shield.

TOUR / TRAIL 04

Augmented Selfies

As a final reward for completing the trail, AY-PE developed software to augment the user’s selfie image with a 3D gargoyle-like ‘grotesque’ filter, based on the Abbey’s stonework. Different facial features can be played with and augmented, with the end design being a souvenir for the child to take home.

York Office —

The Dovecote,

Naburn Lane, Fulford,

York, YO19 4RG

London Office —

The Stanley Building,

7 Pancras Square,

London, N1C 4AG

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