Must share two interesting interactive tools I ran into recently:
Hands on interaction: Jeff Han is a research scientist for New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He's been showing off a touch screen in which multiple users can create on a screen at the same time. It's like those screens at Disney, only better.
The video, sponsored by BMW.
Newspaper virtual page turning here. I'm conflicted on this one, but willing to see what others think.
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The virtual newspaper made me smile... and SQUINT. Despite having all of the view adjustment controls readily available, I think that leisurely application for this feature might only be possible on a big-screen TV. Or as modern art. For research or locating digital ad tear sheets, though, this is a great feature- it mimics how the reader/viewer would perceive the article or ad in relation to the rest of the paper, taking page turning and how the eye naturally moves into consideration. Thanks for sharing!
Andria,
Show me how you get to the examples of the virtual newspaper.
Sorry, Amelia, was trying to be too brief.
When you go to the link, mouse over the paper until your cursor turns into a hand. Click.
A window comes up with directions on the left and the newspaper on the right. Very horizontal, good for a 15-inch Powerbook but probably not many other machines.
You can ignore the instructions and click on the upper right corner of the paper, where you would put your fingers to turn the page.
And then the page turns.
Seems much more real than a pdf document, and I tried the search button just now too. It finds stories with your search word in it, but apparently not ads. I think it should be searchable for keywords in ads as well.
But it really looks cool, if you have the right monitor for it.
My former local paper in Kona, West Hawaii Today, which I still read online in its HTML version, came out with a similar PDF driven and complete version a year ago. The HTML version is free and a bit abbreviated, so to get "the full story" I paid a three-month subscription to the new version. After only a few days, I gave up and went back to the HTML pages I was used to. The interface was poor, offered poor overview and difficult navigation to get to details, plus it just took too long. Converting print-feel to screen is getting better, but to me these versions are not getting there...
My former local paper in Kona, West Hawaii Today, came out with a “new and improved” online version of their paper about a year ago. Since I read the HTML version every day, I thought it would be fun to get “the whole story,” and subscribed to the new version. After only a week I gave up, and returned to the free HTML version. Although the latter is abbreviated and not as graphical, the new pdf-based version was too cumbersome to navigate. Also, it was hard to get a good overview and then move to detail. Converting a printed paper to a similar screen experience has come a long way, but for me both these examples are lacking.
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