An archivist at the George Eastman House in Rochester NY kindly setup an old Lumiere Cinematographé for me to watch a copy of Edison's "The Kiss' being projected.
It's amazing to see this 100+ year old camera/projector still work as good as new.
An archivist at the George Eastman House in Rochester NY kindly setup an old Lumiere Cinematographé for me to watch a copy of Edison's "The Kiss' being projected.
It's amazing to see this 100+ year old camera/projector still work as good as new.
An Archive Tasting Room is a space in which users—both scholarly or casual—can sample a curated selection of past researchers' experiences and inquiries at
archives around the world.
A quick experiment using an object to steer through a researcher's archived inquiry.
I'm in the process of designing a kind of Archive Tasting Room where users can enter and play and investigate a previous researcher's inquiry at a particular archive. These archived sets in themselves will be hand selected by a sort of Archive Somellier and offered up for experiencing. This experiment was done to see what it might feel like if you could bring up one of these archived set embodied in an object, and by using that object be able to navigate around.
For the next version I hope to use a larger projector, or two at once to fake a truly curved space. Right now this one is only a flat wall.
I'm using OSCemote on iPhone OS to control CoolIris browser plugin for this demo.
This is a test of an interactive mode of access to archives I'm in the process of designing.
By using a multitouch mobile device, a user could "taste" or "sample" a few different researchers' captured inquiries from their time spent researching at an archive.
The device would control output on an alternate screen. Here I am just using a monitor as a display but it could very well be a projected image on a wall or surface, a large flat screen, or even a table-top surface.
This experiment demonstrates how piggybacking on existing technology allows for rapid prototyping of experiences for designers.
This is just a quick experiment today to test a flipping interaction between a multi-touch handheld device and a larger multi-touch screen—such as an Oracle Multi-touch able. Right now I am only demoing it on Flash on my laptop.
Forwarding OSC from OSCemote (for iPhone) to Flash (on a Mac).
Just think about it… What if you were trapped under something heavy and the mouse was out of your reach? Scary, right? That's exactly why we have these keyboard shortcuts so you can still use Vimeo until the help arrives.
