OCEAN SOUND LAB (OSL) is an educational software environment developed
by FORTH/IACM for public aquaria and museum exhibitions, offering an enjoyable
introduction to the fascinating world of underwater sound.
It contains a variety of play-and-learn activities, from presentations of underwater sounds and basic physics for the non-expert, to interactive applications and games around ocean acoustic propagation effects. User interaction is through touch screen or mouse driven display, microphone and speakers or earphones.
OCEAN SOUND LAB features
. An educational character weaved together with the fun of the game/show
. Special design for exhibition settings allowing for a broad range of usage profiles, from selective interaction to full experience
. Flexible setup based on modular architecture allowing for a variety of installation options
. Possibility for enhancement with physical hands-on exhibits
. Multilingual support (up to 8 user-interchangeable languages)
. Customizable multimedia content (text/sounds/images/video).
OSL has been developed by the Wave Propagation group of the
Institute of Applied and Computational
Mathematics of the
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas
(FORTH/IACM), with over 25 years of experience in underwater acoustics research and education. The design has been carried out by FORTH/IACM and NOIS.E .
