Spotme.com, describing the networking devices: “Spotme combines social networking via a searchable photo database, messaging, people radar, unique “Spotting” function and electronic business card exchange, with audience response, Q&A sessions, messaging, lead retrieval, attendance tracking, electronic feedback forms (and more) to create the only all-in-one communication service for events of all sorts - from 200 to 5000 participants.“
Artists, designers and researchers extensively use web research. Images and media are saved on their hard drives for later reference or inspiration. The potential usage of the file is often not clear at the time of the downloading, and thus it's often not found necessary to save the URL of the original context where it was found. When these files are shared with other people on workshops, all references to the original source are lost.
The 'Minority Report's OS is brought to life. Check this video of Oblong Industries' g-speak: 1. A spatial operating environment. 2. The programs execute in real space 3. The spatial interaction allows collaborative control. 4. Direct manipulation provides intuitive, high-bandwith access to information 5. The platform is optimized for massive data sets & time-critical work
Check out SocioPatterns.org SocioPatterns focuses on exposing patterns, specifically in social dynamisc and coordniated human activity. Their website contains reports on experiments, visualisations and data analyses.
Small Design Firm Inc. located in Cambridge is a design studio specialized in the design and implementation of interactive, dynamice graphical applications. "The computer screen is not a piece of paper and should not be treated as such". With this goal in mind, David Small invents new ways to make information accessible to people. One of their projects is the Illuminated Manuscript.
"Make a portrait or take a snapshot with your — new — friend. The Ik-cam will directly publish the image on the website".
IkCam is playful tool to visualise social networks with RFID chips. This new RFID application is well suited for conferences,
exhibitions and other events. During a conference participants get an IkTag, a badge with a RFID chip, which is linked to a persons profile on a social network site. In a playful manner members of communities
can make contact with each other and link each others profiles on social network websites.
Since June 2008 BMW Corporate extended and reopend their BMW Museumin Munich. Several multi-touch elements are installed in the museum. The company ICT AG, Kohlberg were responsible for both hard and software implementations. The BMW history, culture and chronology are presented in this area with
interactive and audio-visual elements. Up to 60 visitors can
simultaniously generate information on BMW history at a 10 meter long
multi-touch capable 'Company table'. The interactive table - currently
the world's largest touch-table - receives content feed from then
brigh Full-HD-Projectors in a hardedge process. Visitors can trigger
individual actions by touch on the sensitvie table surface.
The Lemur designed a control surface
for audio and media applications. Their major innovation is t a modular
graphic interface concept and using multi-touch sensor technology.
"While conventional mice, touchscreens and tablets are limited to
single contact points, the Lemur's multi-touch capacity makes it
possible to use all of your ten fingertips to accurately control
multiple user-interface objects at once" (Lemur's website).
The palette of configurable graphic objects enables users to design
made-to-measure interfaces by using the free available JazzEditor. This
endows the Lemur with the capacity to adapt its behavior according to
the application one is controlling: modular synthesizers, virtual
instruments, VJ software, 3D animations tools and light control.
New York University's Department of Computer Science started in 2006 a
research on multi touch interaction. Jefferson Y. Han (project
director) together with Philip L. Davidson, Casey M.R. Muller and Ilya
D. Rosenberg investigate bi-manual, multi-point, and multi-user input
on a graphical interaction surface.
“Spotme combines social networking via a searchable photo database, messaging, people radar, unique “Spotting” function and electronic business card exchange, with audience response, Q&A sessions, messaging, lead retrieval, attendance tracking, electronic feedback forms (and more) to create the only all-in-one communication service for events of all sorts - from 200 to 5000 participants.“
Since June 2008 BMW Corporate extended and reopend their 
The Lemur designed a 
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