i'm very interested in looking at how
any surface can be a display it's really
important to understand how you would
display information on it how you would
use it as an input device because we
really want to translate that to
interface and display
we started off working with a couple
artists right after the creators project
in uh new york in october and what we
decided to do for uh san francisco is
that we wanted to do a large wall
display so one of the things that we
spent several months doing is crafting
touch display that works on an ordinary
wall
this installation was a collaboration
between social print studio and intel
labs creators project hooked us up
and social print
studio provided us with a really nice
clean aesthetic design to our
system and this is ben who provided that
uh really nice clean interface i came up
and visited doug's team and
checked out the technology that they
were working on and there was a lot of
ideas that you were taking on this
visual computing and display technology
and and the touch interfaces
my main strategy was to kind of cut down
everything to get
something really simple that could that
could work so in the end i just wanted
to focus on the really simple grid
and really two basic gestures which is
the swipe and and the touch
part of the installation that we did
here is we're experimenting with uh
input mechanisms we decided to use
twitter and instagram and part of the
installation allows you to explore
photos from somebody you may or may not
know on our display wall and so that
connection of the social experience here
at creators project and then pulling up
some of these photos that you
have met through this event is a really
kind of interesting social experiment as
well
so if you walk up to the wall you can
use your hand and just scroll images
back and forth and we've set this up as
a timeline so the right hand side are
things that are happening right now we
can scroll back through time and see
things that were happening last night
the way that the system works is that i
can select her photos and um what's
going on is the system is now uh
traversing uh through the
instagram database and pulling up just
her photos and we're pulling them up on
a larger display here that allows us to
visualize uh her photos and this one has
a different interaction mechanism where
it's a full body experience as you kind
of like walk closer into the
scene the photos grow and yeah you can
move your arm around and actually
explore manipulate the user's photos as
you uh would like so it's kind of like
this part of the
wall now allows you to immerse yourself
and explore that particular individual's
photos
and one of the things that i'm very
interested in doing is breaking all of
the uh tethers the keyboard and the
mouse the traditional part and then also
freeing up the
experience of the computer from the
two-dimensional glass interface to
something that is much more immersive
something that you can understand you
know one way to think of it is uh
philosophers have long said that eyes
are windows into the soul the display is
the window into the soul of the computer
and so one of the things that we're
trying to do is rethink of the way that
people look at computers and experience
them