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This paper investigates the challenges associated with creating engaging virtual programming during the COVID-19 pandemic through the event Playfest from the ASU Art Museum. A survey was created and given to participants of the live Zoom event to understand which aspects were a success from the audience perspective. Staff members from different job ranks were interviewed about the internal structure in place for altering the popular in-person event into a digital one. Even though the COVID-19 pandemic will not last forever, exploring how to create virtual programming that is successful at engaging audiences allows for museums to remain relevant in a world where digital media is frequently consumed.
HackerHero is an educational game designed to teach children, especially those from marginalized backgrounds, computation thinking skills needed for STEAM fields. It also teaches children about social injustice. This project was focused on creating an audio visualization for an AI character within the HackerHero game. The audio visualization consisted of a static silhouette of a face and a wave-like form to represent the mouth. Audio content analysis was performed on audio sampled from the character’s voice lines. Pitch and amplitude derived from the analysis was used to animate the character’s visual features such as it’s brightness, color, and mouth movement. The mouth’s movement and color was manipulated with the audio’s pitch. The lights of Wave were controlled by the amplitude of the audio. Design considerations were made to accommodate those with visual disabilities such as color blindness and epilepsy. Overall the final audio visualization satisfied the project sponsor and built upon existing audio visualization work. User feedback will be a necessity for improving the audio visualization in the future.