Grant from the National Science Foundation for Multi-touch Interactive Museum Exhibits!

This is interesting!

"Open Exhibits is a National Science Foundation-funded initiative to develop a library of free and open multitouch-enabled software modules for exhibit development. Build using the popular Adobe Flash and Flex authoring tools, museum professionals will be able to create innovative floor and web-based exhibits easily and inexpensively" -- Open Exhibits

VIDEO: Introducing Open Exhibits: Open Source Exhibit Software


Open Exhibits Core is based on the commercial GestureWorks software package.


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Open Exhibits Funded by the National Science Foundation
Jim Spadaccini, Open Exhibits Blog 9/21/10

About Open Exhibits
Jim Spadaccini, of Ideum, is the Principal Investigator of the Open Exhibits project.  Kate Haley Goldman is the co-PI and main researcher.  The three museum partners are the Don Harrington Discovery Center, the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, and the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. 


Ideum website