Sometimes, museum exhibitions have captivating content but struggle to attract the interest of kids. What is more, it is also difficult to encourage reflection on the knowledge gathered during the visit. Is there a way to provide information in a layered and captivating way, adapted to the user?

Gamified Info Gathering uses augmented reality to solve this issue, creating layered stories. People will collect cards all throughout Universeum. Each card would contain a part of the story about a certain topic. After collecting the portions of the story, the parts will be put together like a puzzle to get the full story. The stories will be shown both physically and virtually, through a supporting app. Users can create their own stories, and exchange parts with others. Finally, the students will bring the cards back home, bringing the opportunity of reflecting later on the topics. The cards can also be used as supporting material for lectures, especially interesting for kids.

The stories aim to be an interactive and engaging way to teach and stimulate kids. They will focus on topics that directly affect them and they can influence, teaching the science behind those actions through stories they can create and change. Moreover, the stories are focused on promoting sustainable behaviours through metaphors, avoiding to teach simply by mimicking and instead backing up this stories with science and/or real data. Each character will give a different view on each scenario and ellaborate on the central topic.