Mark Burtons ‘Waterboard’ makes use of advanced touchscreen technologies to create an interactive water experience. Users can manipulate digital water with the use of old fashioned white board markers and erasers. The flow can be adjusted by drawing lines on the screen. When the installation touched by the users hands or when someone leans against the screen the simulated liquid will move around them as real water would. Virtual life-forms will appear in basins and plants will grow where land (lines) and water meet. If the water is stagnant it will even become clouded and discolored.
The Waterboard project was the winner of the RSA Design awards 2008.
