Recently the IBBT (the Flemish Institute for Broadband Technologies) organized a contest: INCA - Innovative and Creative Applications. In this competition you get one month of time to create an application that is either innovative, creative or both :-)

We created 'Tableau'. This application provides a customer a simple and intuitive way of finding his way around the S.M.A.K. museum.

It can be seen as a virtual and interactive guide to the museum and the art works in the museum. Although the application was created for a museum, it could be used for a large number of other venues: 

• Libraries
• Public space (city hall, ...)
• Musea
• Public services (fire department, police, etc.)
• ...

Some key concepts we have tried to add to the application: 

• Intuitve: The multi-touch interface helps to make the application accessible without any prior knowledge. 
• Natural: The way in which the art can be looked at, rotated, resized, etc is very natural to the user.
• Social: The application not only can be used by multiple people simultaneously, it also inspires people to interact with each other.  
• Super-real: the real and the virtual merge together, e.g. through interaction with physical objects.
• Spatial: The application can be used from all sides of the surface table. The appliation supports 360 degrees use.
• Accessible: The application has been developed to be accessible by as much people as possible (enabled and disabled, children and elderly people)

You can see a short demonstration video below (Thanks to the S.M.A.K. museum for making available their wonderful art collection. 

Tableau: low resolution(11MB)  - high resolution (115MB)