Ideum is featured in latest issue of Santa Fe’s Trend Magazine. “Trend explores and celebrates the unique and fascinating intermingling of cultural influences, tradition, and innovation in art, architecture, and design—in Santa Fe, the…
The results of our 2009 survey on computer-based exhibits is now available on the Open Exhibits website. This is the second year of the survey, and this year, we received 150 responses from…
We’ve just posted a position for a Multitouch Programmer Developer 1 on craigslist. From the job posting… “We seek a programmer with demonstrated experience and other complimentary skills to join our rapidly growing team.
We’ve just posted a position for an Exhibit Developer/Technician 1 on Craigslist. As we state in the posting… “We seek a full-time exhibit developer who can help us build and install computer-based multi-touch tables and custom exhibit installations. We also need help with technical documentation, email and phone support, so strong writing and communication skills are required. This is an entry-level position, so we don’t expect applicants to have museum or exhibit experience, but we are looking for someone with fabrication, shop skills, electric skills,…
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…
It’s official, our MT-50 multitouch table is now available, we’ve updated our information pages and product specifications document (PDF) for this second generation touch table. The table comes bundled with GestureWorks, our Flash multitouch SDK. Here’s the video of the MT-50 from multitouch exhibits on YouTube. (A QuickTime version is available at: multitouch.blip.tv) The MT-50 multitouch table has several improvements over the MT2. As our press release (Ideum Releases New Version of Its High-Resolution…
Next 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. I first started teaching a course for museum professionals at UVIC back in 2002. Back then it focused on the Web as an educational platform for museums. The Social Dimension is more expansive. We’ll look at social networking applications on the Web, but…
There is a video on YouTube of our MT2 multitouch table in action at the Ontario Science Centre. The video shows our multitouch mash-up that uses Yahoo! Maps and Flickr photos. (The video also includes various applications from NUI’s Snowflake software suite which comes bundled with each table.) We worked with Ontario Science Centre to customize the mapping program and they have opened it up to the Flickr community. Visitors can join their group, Innovation in Toronto, and upload geo-tagged photos to be included in the…
