Tag Archives: digital signage

Schematic Touch Wall Demo

June 25, 2010 – 4:18 AM

Every week day at 3:10 PM, Trevor Kaufman gives a demo of the Schematic Touch Wall. The demo features concepts for how our clients, like Dell and Nokia, could use a giant multitouch display to highlight product information and features. Our sister agency at Bridge Worldwide also demo interactive touch wall concepts for Charmin and [...]

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Sneak Peek at Setup – Cannes Lions 2010

June 21, 2010 – 3:22 PM

Schematic Touch Wall Setup in Cannes – Part 2 from Michelle Kempner on Vimeo.
The new Schematic Touch Wall debuted at Cannes Lions 2010 yesterday. In addition to sharing the official video post below, I wanted to give people a glimpse into some of the behind-the-scenes effort that goes into putting together something like this. This [...]

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Minority Report UI In Real Life

June 11, 2010 – 7:47 PM

Everyone at Schematic has a soft spot in their hearts for Minority Report because our Chief Creative Officer, Dale Herigstad, was part of the research team that developed the visionary gestural interfaces used by Tom Cruise in the film. In this Ted talk, Minority Report science adviser and inventor, John Underkoffler, demos the real-life version of [...]

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Touch Screen Ergonomics

April 30, 2010 – 8:19 PM

When you spend time working with a 12′ by 5′ touch wall, you notice a lot of new things that you ordinarily never think about such as how often a touch surface needs to be cleaned. Answer: often. Trivial tasks like navigating a file system take much more time and good eyesight on such a [...]

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Christie Microtiles Field Trip

March 26, 2010 – 8:18 PM

I recently had the opportunity to take a field trip down to Christie to see MicroTiles in action.  MicroTiles are 12″ (height) by 16″ (width) by 10″ (depth) units that include a projector using rear projection. Their native resolution is 720 x 540 pixels per tile. They can easily be stacked together in different configurations [...]

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