aka Future Ocean Explorer.

This Multitouch Table offers access to a vast database of knowledge. The content stretches from traditional ocean research to less public topics such as ‘who owns the oceans?’.
Our aim with the Future Ocean Explorer (FOE) was a mobile, multi-user information system with a simple interaction model hence content rules over technology.
we are simply tired of picture-scale-rotate-interfaces without meaning. Let’s look at the interaction dramaturgy of the FOE. Topics swim as typgraphical swarms along the table. The visitor can catch them and they consequently arrange in a hierarchical structure, instantly visualizing direct and indirect relationships between keywords. From here you can access information in form of texts and attached media (movies, animation etc.). We add more modules each time the table is shown. The latest one is a database of scientists and related research departments.
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