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Mike, here are a couple of candidates for your list in our newly opened
Space Chase wing, Technofrolics' Spin Browser and Onomy Labs'
GeoConnecTable.

Our Spin Browser is loaded with NASA clips.  The user spins a wheel to
control the video (fast or slow, forward or backwards, stop or go).
Visitors spend a lot more time investigating the video clips on the spin
browser than they do watching similar material on a larger monitor (over
which they have no control).

I first saw a version of the GeoConnecTable at Maryland Science Center
in their TerraLink exhibit.  Ours has been in use non-stop since the
Space Chase opening.  It uses a database of satellite imagery similar to
Google Earth.  You tilt the table to pan across the globe and spin it
left or right to zoom in or out.  

There are a lot of companies making interactive video walls (or floors
or other surfaces).  Ours is by PlayMotion. I attended an ASTC session
on these type exhibits several years ago and I think they have so much
potential.  Scott Snibbe http://snibbe.com has some very creative
applications.  Check out "You Are Here" or "Cabspotting" and "Boundary
Functions."  The first one of these interactive walls I heard of was Ed
Tannebaum's Recollections.  There are a couple of other companies I
can't recall at the moment that have other interesting applications,
like virtual fish that gather close and follow  you or scatter away when
you step close to them in their virtual pond.

Along the lines of the Talking Snack Machine, we have Whac-a-Snack, a
modified Whac-a-Mole game that rewards the player with points for
healthy choices and for a balanced diet.  Do you think in some cases an
alternative interface may be just another way of describing an
innovative exhibit?  It's hard to say where the lines would be drawn...

And we do have a 2 player dance machine in BodyQuest near a heart rate
monitor. 

Becky Fox Matthews
Senior Educator/Special Projects Manager
Adventure Science Center
800 Ft. Negley Blvd.
Nashville, TN 37203
voice: 615-401-5073

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