Landing Craft Tank (LCT) 7074 is the last surviving LCT from D-Day, and has been turned into a walk-on museum, located at The D-Day Story in Portsmouth. The exhibition tells the story of the ship and related people, including construction and role in D-Day, post-war life as a floating nightclub in Liverpool, and also the more recent restoration and conservation work. I developed two software interactives for the exhibition.

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'People & Archive Explorer' is a dual screen interactive, operated via a touch screen. A second, larger screen acts as a repeater screen for other visitors to watch. It shows the same content as the touch screen, but without any UI controls or buttons. The interactive provides themed access to 60+ image and video records, each with accompanying text information. The themes tell the story of LCT, organised by construction, the crews, D-Day, post war, and salvage and conservation. Media includes a variety of material, such as personal interviews with construction workers and D-Day crew, maps, plans and charts, personal diary extracts, photos and interviews of it's use as a nightclub and party ship, and a behind the scenes look at the conservation work. The content can be edited by the client using a content management system (CMS). This provides the ability to add, remove and edit all records. The interactive is installed in two locations onboard LCT.

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'Finding Out About LCT' is a dual display, tactile interactive that provides narrated exploration of eight key themes, including the construction, how it worked, loading troops and vehicles, beach landings and conservation. Visitors are presented with eight physical printed icons, touching an icon triggers themed video content to play on a large projection screen in front of them, with an accompanying British Sign Language video playing on a portrait screen to the side. The eight icons are illuminated while a screensaver plays on the projection, encouraging visitors to touch an icon. When an icon is touched, all the lights switch off except the one illuminating the selected icon, and content videos play on both the projection and screen. When the videos reach the end, the interactive returns to the screensaver, and all eight icons are illuminated again. Both the lighting and touch sensors are controlled from the interactive using Phidgets hardware.