Playing Valcamonica Multitouch Application Developed with Open Exhibits
In Sankt Pölten, Austria, just west of Vienna, at St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, a Digital Media Technologies class developed a multitouch application that explores pre-historic rock art in northern Italy. The app, Playing Valcamonica, was developed using Ideum’s … Continue reading
Ideum and Open Exhibits at ISEA 2012
Next week, the ISEA2012 international symposium kicks off. We will be there demoing the latest Open Exhibits software on one of our Platform multitouch tables on Thursday, September 19th at the Meeting Minds Tech Lounge at the Hotel Albuquerque Reception (5:30-7pm). … Continue reading
Designing Multitouch for Children: Lessons from the Living Mural
While researching multitouch applications for kids, I came across an interesting blog post about the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California. This turn-of-the-century museum recently underwent a transformation which included the launch of Tot Land, a dedicated learning space for … Continue reading
Building with Open Exhibits at ACM ITS Conference
Learn how to build multitouch applications with Open Exhibits: Attend our in-person workshop at the upcoming Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS) Conference. The event runs from November 11-14, 2012 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Organised by ACM, the world’s largest computing society, … Continue reading
Open Exhibits at ASTC 2012 Conference
(Cross-posted from the Ideum blog.) The Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) will be hosting its annual conference October 13-16 in Columbus, Ohio. Ideum and Open Exhibits will be sharing a booth (#709) and showing off multitouch and arduino-based hardware and software. … Continue reading
Designing Open Exhibits for the British Museum
This week, we finalized our designs for two prototype exhibits for the British Museum. In discussing them with the Open Exhibits team, our priority was how to design exhibits that are simple to produce (without ActionScript programming) yet deliver a … Continue reading
Research Update: Audio/Video Testing
Through the research in Open Exhibits we hope to better understand how visitors interact with multitouch surfaces. Currently, we’re prepping a component of the research where we will audio and video record visitors as they interact with a multitouch table … Continue reading
The Maxwell – An Experiment in Viewing
The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology has recently opened a new exhibition, “An Experiment in Viewing,” which features an Ideum multitouch table with Open Exhibits Collection Viewer. Curators Catherine Baudoin and Amy Grochowski selected a broad range of culturally and geographically diverse … Continue reading
Multitouch Table Exhibit with Audio Layer Prototype
As I mentioned in my previous post, Open Exhibits Lead Developer, Charles Veasey and I attended a workshop at the Museum of Science in Boston this week that explored accessibility issues in computer-based exhibits. In the next few weeks, we will share … Continue reading
Creating Museum Media for Everyone
Next week, myself and Charles Veasey from the Open Exhibits project will be attending a week-long workshop focusing on accessibility issues in computer-based interactives held at the Museum of Science in Boston. The project, Creating Museum Media for Everyone is a National … Continue reading
