North by Southwest: Bering Sea Communities

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The main screen of the North by Southwest: Bering Sea Communities, Collaborations and Collections touch screen exhibit.

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North by Southwest: Bering Sea Communities, Collaborations and Collections contains a digital version of a 1901 photo album and a pan and zoom viewer to explore artifacts. The photo album was developed by Suzzane Rogan Bernardi and documents her stay in Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, at the turn of the last century. The interactive viewer allows visitors to examine a set of intricately detailed carved walrus tusks from the same era.

Ideum worked closely with The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology to develop this interactive touch screen kiosk. The exhibit was authored using Flash and XML. The "page turning" function in the book was developed from scratch, while a modified version of "zoomify" was used for the pan and zoom viewer. The touch screen exhibit compliments a larger exhibition of the same name.