Last week—at the Museums and the Web conference in Denver—our multitouch table bared all. A clear plexiglass side panel allowed conference attendees to see all of the components inside. Ever since we built our…
The New Mexico Technology Excellence awards recognize “exceptional individual and organizational excellence in technology throughout the State.” We’re honored that two of our projects, the 100″ multitouch table exhibit…
It’s been a busy week for the GestureWorks team. Our programmers have been developing a Flex-compatible version of GestureWorks, which we expect to release later this month. (We already provide the easiest way…
At the end of March, I will be teaching a blended (online and in person) course for the Cultural Resource Management program at the University of Victoria (UVIC) in British Columbia. The course is entitled The Social Dimension: Interactive Exhibits for the Floor and Web. A blogged about this a few months ago, now I’m busily preparing for this course. Here’s a brief course description…. Computer-Based Interactive exhibits are now commonplace in museums, and many of these same…
We’re excited to announce the release of GestureWorks 1.1 and our open source gesture library! Ideum first released GestureWorks back in December. We’ve recently implemented some performance enhancements in the latest…
GestureWorks is now available and has Windows 7 support. Updated: October 18, 2009: We will now be releasing GestureWorks on December 3rd, we apologize for the delay. We will be building…
I just read Paul Orselli’s provocative blog post Are Screens killing Museums? (on ExhibiTricks) along with a barrage of posted comments. I agree with many of the points made, and while others have already suggested some positive things about “screens” in museums, I couldn’t help but make my own top ten explaining why “screens” are important to the visitor experience. (Originally, I was going to post this as a comment, but it got a bit too long, plus I wouldn’t have been…
After months of development, we have set the release date for our multitouch framework and development environment for Adobe Flash. A free public alpha version will be available on July 15th. You can learn…
Since the release of the Wii gaming system developers have been experimenting in connecting game controllers with other computer systems. Our recent entry into multitouch, has deepened our interest in all forms of physical computing. So, we decided to take a quick look ourselves to see what possibilities Wii Remote controllers and Adobe Flash might provide for exhibit development. As a quick proof of concept, we downloaded the WiiFlash Server for Mac and took a look at some the examples provided on the…
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