Go-Live

The wall is live! Our group attended the opening gala for the Louvre Atlanta Year Three exhibition, and met a few of the people who have generously donated to the High Museum. The press conference was also extremely interesting. (Our names were mentioned for helping with the interactive wall). It was kind of unbelievable that the president director of the Louvre has seen my project and endorsed it. That’s basically all the sign-off I need!

Building the Wall

Here’s a bit more about the technology behind the wall. The wall consists of one 7x10-foot piece of glass, two cameras, three PCs, four projectors and 10 infrared lights. The application is coded in C++ and there are over 6,400 lines of code unique to this application. I hadn’t coded in C++ since AP computer science in high school so I found this quite interesting!

So what is this Interactive Wall I keep talking about? The Interactive Wall technology was developed by Accenture’s Technology Labs and has been featured at venues ranging from O’Hare International Airport to the Amateur International Association World Boxing Championship. Using two cameras, the wall calculates where a person’s finger touches the screen allowing the software to respond. The glass itself does not actually sense where the touch occurred.

I’ve been on the project for three months. However, the wall represents three years of intense planning and professional exchanges between the High Museum of Art and the Louvre Museum, launching a new model for international exhibitions. The design of the wall itself is a combined effort between the High and Accenture.

My First Accenture Project: High Museum in Atlanta

Hi, My name is Lauren Haynes, and I'm a development analyst for Accenture’s Technology Labs in Chicago. After graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in May with a bachelor's in general engineering, I joined Accenture on June 11, 2008. I'd interned with the Tech Labs the previous summer and was baited into an early start date with a cool project.