The Artists’ Choices multi-touch table allows visitors to create images in the manner of four 20th century painters (Georgia O’Keeffe, Edward Hopper, Charles Sheeler and Ralph Coburn). This 64" by 40" surface, situated in the middle of a 20th century gallery in the Boston Museum of Fine Art’s new American Wing, displays six work stations and a shared work portfolio. Seated as if around a coffee table, visitors make compositions alone or with others. They also learn the background of each artist, exploring biographies and key works.

Visitors select one of four activities: choosing O’Keeffe allows visitors to scale and crop elements as O’Keeffe did in many of her works; choosing Hopper allows visitors to move elements into and around Hopper’s Room in Brooklyn; choosing Coburn allows visitors to re-arrange replicas of the 35 small canvases that make up Blue White Green; and choosing Sheeler allows visitors to layer and color photographic transparencies as Sheeler did.

When complete, the visitor’s creation can animate off the workstation, grow to fill the entire table (a dramatic moment!) and then settle in a shared public portfolio.  

Surrounded by the sea in all directions, the ancient Maya viewed their world as inextricably tied to water — the vital medium from which the world emerged, gods arose and ancestors communicated. Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea at the Peabody Essex museum reinterprets Mayan art with this idea in mind, in an exhibit the New York Times call "unforgettably dramatic." The Creatures of the Fiery Pool table was the exhibit's interactive centerpiece.

Presented on a unique elliptical multi-touch surface custom-designed by Tactable, shadowy figures swim within an animated sea, which, when touched, miraculously transform into their mythical counterparts as imagined by ancient Mayan artists. Hand-drawn menus of icons reveal fascinating details about turtles, crocodiles, sting rays, sharks and other animals as they appear in nature, art and the Maya cosmology. Artworks in the gallery are interpreted through video and animation, encouraging visitors to see them in a different light. The entire background surface is touchable by many people as well, creating realistic waves in the simulated water pool. Sunset reflections appear on the waves' surface giving a dynamic visual interpretation of the meaning of the Mayan mythical Fiery Pool.

The Map of the Future is an interactive climate change simulation table created by Tactable for a National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored traveling museum exhibit. The exhibit focuses on the current and future potential impacts of local and global climate change. Visitors walking up to the interactive table can place one or more physical dials on the map to alter the future level of energy supplies and demands, and see how those changes would impact the world in 2075. Multiple versions of the Map of the Future table will travel around the U.S. to different science museums and centers as part of a larger exhibit about climate change over the next few years.

The global energy supply and demands are converted into carbon dioxide emissions, which are fed into a climate simulation model to predict temperature rise in the year 2075. Results are shown in different modalities including numerical, visual, and auditory. The carbon levels are visualized as visual smog clouds on the map, and blinking alerts are used to highlight the potential negative impacts due to temperature rise and energy shortages. “News from the future” videos are periodically played showing what the world may be like as a result of the users' choices.

We worked with Sprint to develop what has been termed the “jewel” of their flagship store in Kansas City — two multi-touch tables that allow customers to sample from the wide array of media on their network. Music hits, videos, screensavers, games, and applications are visualized as a 3D world of glowing orbs that bubble up as people approach the tables and display selected media when touched, in a fluid and social interaction. Using object recognition technology, special discs placed on the tables prompt a variety of applets that are fun representations of Sprint’s offerings, like a fully interactive DJ's turntable or fully functioning web browser. The tables are integrated into the store's show control system, triggering synchronized full-screen videos that play with the other displays in the store.

We collaborated with Clarity International and Eastpoint Display to create a touch-wall for Accenture's corporate reception area for their Soho office in London, England. We provided construction planning, the touch-sensing system and Flash API to Clarity International, and worked with them to create a compelling, interactive display to show clients. We also provided multi-touch, Flash-based interaction widgets, such as multi-finger image browsing interaction. This touchwall also comes with a mini touch-screen that can be used to control the display modes of the wall, such as the Flash application, the desktop, and even satellite-based TV.

In collaboration with Virtango and Small Design Firm, we created touch and glass sensing technology and consulted on both the physical and the interaction design for seven multi-touch tables for Cirque du Soleil. The concept was to reanimate the imagery from the Beatles and 60's psychedelia in a magical and fun nightclub experience. Clients can draw with their fingers but instead of lines, they may get flowers, rainbows or trains of animated mini-Beatles. Glasses are recognized and tracked to trigger colorful effects projected down to light up the drinks. We also created a custom LED ring recognition system to enable special individuals to activate the 'drawing review' mode of the table and to select drawings for display on central columns in the bar.