John Sear

Choose Four is a collaborative educational game for large format multi-touch tables. It presents the players with a question and spreads a number of potential answers around the table. Against the clock players must decide which of the answer cards are the best match. On revealing the answers players are informed of which answer cards were the best fit and the reason why they would be correct.

Face creator is an example of a number of kit-piece creator applications. These allow users to construct a person / face / animal out of existing artwork. Users are initially presented with blank faces and other time add eyes, nose, mouth, hair etc. The huge combination of these kit-pieces ensures that every creation is unique. The resulting face can be saved or uploaded to twitter. It is envisaged that this creation process may form the start of more complex experience.

Impertinent Questions is a multi-touch table clone of the popular adult party game 'Cards Against Humanity'. Described as a game for horrible people, CAH pitches players against each other to come up with the most creative response to a randomised question. Impertinent Questions differs in that all answer cards are available to all players at the beginning of each round. It features computerised voice overs and anonymous voting.

Triptych art is made up of three panels that are intended to be displayed together. This Triptych builder enables an audience to quickly create their own. They are provided with a collection of photos and an inspirational keyword. The must choose the images that they feel best reflect this. Zoom and crop to a desired view and then finally apply 'Photoshop-style' graphical filters. The final images can be uploaded to twitter or viewed as a slideshow.

This image viewer allows a curator to arrange content into individual categories. Within each category the images can be precisely laid out as desired by the curator. This arrangement can help users to discover the content themselves and allow the images to tell their own story. Each image can be supplemented with a short descriptive text.

This X-Ray viewer supports a number of images that are superimposed on top of each other. Round lenses can moved by the user to ‘see-thru’ to the lower levels. In the example above initially the image is entirely blank. It is left to the users to explore the layers and discover the animal. This also works with alternative content, for example cross-sections showing the inner working of a vehicle.

This Live Twitter application is a multi-touch image viewer that can be connected to a user’s twitter account. It monitors real-time updates to the account and downloads new images that the user has submitted. A short description is overlaid on the image - based on the 140 character twitter comment.

This collaborative multi-touch application allows a number of maps to be stacked on top of each other. By moving the square lenses, users can view down to other maps. Within each map content can be hidden for users to discover. This discovered content can be images or videos with additional description text. This items can be quickly expanded and easily shared with other users. It works particularly well when maps from different years are overlaid on top of one another enabling users to look back at changes over time.

This is a fluid and dynamic image viewer for large format multi-touch tables. Curated images are organised into groups which use an bird-like flocking algorithm to 'swim' naturally around the screen. Individual groups flock together avoiding others as they swim around. Initially these images are viewed as bubble, smaller circular regions taken from the complete image. When a user is attracted to a particular bubble, they can stop and interact with it, gradually expanding it to reveal the larger image. Once expanded, additional textual information text can be provided.