Shades of Mall City! Funded by a $350,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, Tufts' new 14-foot by 8-foot visualization display offers a combination of advanced features."Users will be able to manipulate, simulate, touch and literally immerse themselves in data in a way they never have been able to before," said Amelia Tynan, vice president and chief information officer and co-principal investigator.
The Tufts system can combine the sense of touch with that of sight through haptic devices that convey varying levels of resistance to the user when he or she touches graphical objects on the display wall.
Sounds like something the Spacing Guild's Navigators of the Dune-iverse, or the hyperspace pilots of the Phoenix in Cherryh's Foreigner series, would be comfy with, or the Mall City educators and advertisers.
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