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Venice Unfolding connects large-scale geovisualizations with innovative interaction methods to display projects on architecture and their characteristics on a multitouch tabletop in a graspable way. It allows browsing these data interactively by selecting and filtering various metadata facets by tilting a physical object.

The interactive installation »mæve« (MACE-Everyville) provides visual and tangible access to the social and intellectual networks behind architectural projects. The installation was part of the 11th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale 2008.

Prof. Boris Müller has a Diploma in Graphic Design from the Hochschule für Künste Bremen (College of Art and Design Bremen, Germany) and a MA in Computer Related Design from the Royal College of Art London. He has worked for a number of international clients and companies like MetaDesign San Francisco, the Science Museum London and the Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication in Bonn. After being a visiting Professor at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea ....

In recent years, we designed and realized successful new forms of visualizing information for individual and collaborative exploration on interactive surfaces. In the Interaction Design Lab we have available our self-developed large scale maeve table, three Multitouch cells, and one Microsoft Surface table.

This week (Dec 9, 2009), the Microsoft Surface was setup at the Interaction Design Lab. First impressions: Multi-touch works very well and is really snappy, as is the overall responsiveness. With 30 inch the screen appears rather small, indeed. The resolution of just 1024 × 768 is ok for this size; not super crisp, but [...]