‘Ghosts in Armour’ at Santa Fe Complex
A new installation at Santa Fe Complex uses one of our multitouch tables along with three projectors to create an interactive and immersive space. The installation, Ghosts in Armour, is described as “a…
Category Archive for Experimental Applications
Welcome to Ideum Labs
Ideum Labs was conceived as a high output, low production value home for our staff to share raw ideas, UX experiments, project snippets, and interesting HCI + multitouch news.
The Tech Test Zone Opening and Gigapixel Kinect Exhibit
Last week I spoke at The Tech Museum’s Interfaces for the New Decade Conference and Gallery Opening. It was a great opportunity to meet and connect with folks from many of the Bay Area…
Open Exhibits, Year Two
Our Open Exhibits multitouch software initiative has just completed its first year. Last year, we received funding from the National Science Foundation and we launched our full community site last November. We’ve learned a…
Tune Grid Multitouch Audio Sequencer – Now Playing
Tune Grid is a 16-step multitouch audio sequencer designed by Ideum and built with GestureWorks for Adobe Flash. Tune Grid comes standard on Ideum's MT55 HD multitouch table.
SENSUS and Open Exhibits – Easy Sharing Between Tables, Tablets & Phones
This video demonstrates the results of a recent collaboration between SENSUS and our own Open Exhibits software initiative. The concept is simple: make networking and sharing transparent across multitouch devices and…
Building a High-Resolution Multitouch Wall (Part 2)
For the latest installment see: Building a High-Resolution Multitouch Wall (Part 3), and Building a High-Resolution Multitouch Wall (Part 4). (Update 9/7/12: You might want checkout the Presenter Touch Wall, a 65″ multitouch wall built for public spaces.) Back in November, I first blogged about building a 7-foot, round, high-resolution multitouch wall. At that point in the process we had just received the large ring and built the computer system. Now, we have installed the glass and have built out the rigging for…
Easy and Cheap Authoring for the Microsoft Kinect with Open Exhibits
Our module for Kinect provides a simple solution for authoring gesture-based applications in Flash. Lately, we’ve been using it in conjunction with our other free Open Exhibits software modules. While the Kinect device itself…
Field Study on Multitouch Tables at Vancouver Aquarium
Over on the Open Exhibits website, Jeff Heywood of Vancouver Aquarium has just shared a comprehensive field study on two multitouch tables in the Canada’s Arctic gallery space. The study was developed by…
