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SEEING THE UNSEEN, George Eastman House and Harold E. Edgerton Foundation, Interface Designer & Usability Tester, 1994-96

Seeing the Unseen is a commercial CD-ROM and museum kiosk about the life and work of Harold E. "Doc" Edgerton, inventor and high-speed photographer. It is permanently installed in the M.I.T. museum. The application is an archive of his extensive library of photographic images, video, and notebooks. It also has a virtual lab where the user can interact with some of Doc's most famous experiments on strobe photography. See some samples of progess sketches and interface wireframes.

Thesis2 Over his lifetime Doc created a huge archive of photographs and videos. Hundreds of them can be seen from the application.

Thesis2 Doc's extensive notebooks can be perused.

Thesis2 Each image or video segment can be examined. The microphone on the "counter" provides Doc's words about some of his most famous works.

Thesis2 One of the interactive simulations; this one is his strobe photography experiment with popping balloons.


copyright dorothy shamonsky 1998-2007