If you would like to order the kit, please contact their office and let them know you’d like the Ideum MT-50(200-05320) kit. The entire kit for the MT-50 can be purchased from our Bosch Supplier in the United States, Pacific Integrated Handling. The main frame for the MT-50 is made of Bosch aluminum. The Ideum and Open Exhibits Team Corrales, New Mexico If you have any suggestions for how we might improve these instructions, please let us know.
#MULTITOUCH TABLE SOFTWARE#
Open Exhibits multitouch and multiuser software is free to students, museums, nonprofits, and US Government agencies. The instructions for the MT-50 are being released as part of the Open Exhibits, museum software and hardware initiative. We have blogged about building 7-foot multitouch wall that is currently at the Monterrey Bay Aquarium. The MT50 has been discontinued, as of March 2011, and has been replaced by a number of LCD based multitouch tables and multitouch coffee tables: It is worth mentioning that many of the techniques used in the MT50 are still used for large-scale installations such as walls, multiple projector tables. There are dozens of these tables installed in museums, research labs, and a few are even installed at Fortune 500 companies across North America. Ideum, a New Mexico-based company, built and sold MT50 multitouch tables between 20. We’ve literally dropped bowling balls on it to test its toughness. The table is virtually indestructible and is designed for use in busy public spaces. Its frame is made of aluminum, the shell is steel, and surface is thick tempered glass. The MT50 supports a resolution of 1280x720. It is 31” high with casters and meets ADA (American’s with Disabilities Act) standards. In comparison, at NMMNHS 80% of the visitor groups showed some form of social interaction.The MT50 is a projection based 50” multitouch table. At the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, where the table primarily controls access to short videos, 25% of the visitor groups had some form of social interaction. Social interaction cues for visitor groups varied widely by site. We measured social interaction at each of the sites using a variety of behavior and verbal indicator, such as ‘makes positive statements about surface technology’ or ‘emotionally reacts to exhibit’. While we’ve observed longer stay times at other multitouch tables, those tables tend to have more content or directed interactives than the collections-based content currently on the Open Exhibits tables. The stay time in each of the galleries was longer for the table than any other object in the galleries, averaging about 2 minutes at each site. For instance, in the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, over 86% of the visitors spent time with the Stegomastodon jaw, and roughly 63% used the multitouch table.
In each of the galleries we studied, the multitouch table was not the most ‘popular’ object in the gallery, that was always an element of the collection. One of the questions within our research was whether having a table in the galleries impacts the amount of attention and the amount of time spent on other elements. These rates are similar to other first-use rates at small-to-medium sized museums in small to medium population areas. During interviews from the late fall of 2012 in Albuquerque, most visitors (73-82%) had not seen a multitouch table previously. How often do visitors use multitouch tables? While Ideum and others have been producing multitouch tables since 2008-2009, data collection for Open Exhibits research suggests that the tables are still novel to most museum visitors.
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