Open Exhibits is a multitouch open source architecture supported by the National Science Foundation. They provide various  modules and templates for displaying interactive information geared towards educators, museum exhibit designers, and other types of information visualization designers. You can download their core for free if you are a student, educator, or museum professional. Since Open Exhibits is based on [...]

This website demonstrates what an interface that does not require mouse clicking could look like. I wouldn’t call this a research experiment exactly, but the developers do collect usage data and apparently they record the mouse movements for all users who visit the site. I think this is an important topic to explore, especially with [...]

I was recently asked to work on a little bit of code that would limit the height of a variable number of bar chart bars to a combined 100% of the total height of the graph. For example, if one bar was at 70%, another bar could only be incremented to 30%. In this example [...]

This is a cool Flash dictonary based on Princeton University’s opensource  WordNet. The developers describe it as a type of neural net, but I look at it as more of a word map where you can see words that are related to your original ‘seed’ word. The use of color, line thickness and distance, and [...]

Flare is an ActionScript library for creating visualizations that run in the Adobe Flash Player. From basic charts and graphs to complex interactive graphics, the toolkit supports data management, visual encoding, animation, and interaction techniques. Even better, flare features a modular design that lets developers create customized visualization techniques without having to reinvent the wheel. [...]

I’ve been busy analyzing data for the last couple days, but in my down time I’ve been playing with creating a more accurate way to determine a person’s location when they take one of my experiments. In the test file, I am gathering much more info than I would in a proper experiment – anonymity [...]

Labuat is a Spanish music band and they have one of the most beautiful Flash music visualizations I have seen in a while. It’s all based on a mouse trailer that is manipulated by the song and controlled by your mouse. The way that everything syncs so smoothly and seamlessly is really impressive. I like [...]

Grant Skinner is one of the top Flash developers out there and pretty much anything he spends time on is worth having a good look at. Normally, when I see a bouncing ball Flash animation I roll my eyes, but of course, I knew this would be different, and I was right. Keep in mind [...]

I’ve been following a lot of Joshua Davis’s multimedia design projects ever since I got into Flash design back in 1998. His praystation series and once-upon-a-forest site were very influential as I began to develop my own sense of design. He also contributed to a very influential (for me) Flash book called New Masters of [...]