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…
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Events at The Tech and the Maxwell Museum
Last week we conducted a workshop at the British Museum in London and hosted an open house to show off Open Exhibits software and our MT55 Platform multitouch table. Our next two…
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…
Open Exhibits and GestureWorks Built Installations
One of great things about creating authoring software is seeing the creative things that people make with it. In the last week, we’ve come across two interesting installations; one built with GestureWorks (our…
7 Foot Multitouch Wall at Monterey Bay Aquarium (Video)
This short video shows the multitouch wall exhibit, Tiny Drifters, which we helped develop for Monterey Bay Aquarium. (See our interactive video walls page for more about our services.) The video will give you an idea of how the whole exhibit came together. As I mentioned in prior posts, this touch wall has some very unique qualities… First off, it is big. It has a seven-foot diameter glass surface and while there are certainly bigger multitouch walls out there,…
Ideum is Expanding and Moving
We’re moving! Six years (in New Mexico) and two studio spaces later, Ideum is on the move again. This time we are…
Emerging Exhibits: Exploring New Models of Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
This fall I will be teaching a course on exhibit development for the Cultural Resource Management Program at the University of Victoria. The course will be held in Vancouver at the Museum of Vancouver from September 26 -28. It is a blended course, so an online component proceeds the three days, starting on September 12th. You can learn more about, Emerging Exhibits: Exploring New Models of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and register on the UVIC Website. Here’s a short description of the course:…
Open Source Release of the NASA Space Weather App for Android
We’ve just released the source code for the NASA Space Weather Viewer app that we developed for the Android platform. The app allows you to see today’s images of the sun along…
Gesture – A Family of Typefaces Based on GestureWorks Supported Gestures
Our commercial multitouch SDK, GestureWorks has support for over 200 gestures. To help our users better understand what’s available in the GestureWorks software package, last year we made a poster showing most of…
