VTM Goes Surface
Yesterday, elections took place in Belgium.
As with any election show, TV stations always do their best to impress people watching as much as they can.
VTM chose to use the Microsoft Surface during their show as the first one in belgium using this new technology for a real purpose.
The application itself consisted of 3 scenes used by the presenter to go through the results as they were gathered throughout the day:
- A startup scene
- A coalition scene
- An evolution scene
The startup scene
The startup screen showed the logo of “De Stem Van Vlaanderen”, the same one as used on the plasma screens behind the presenters.
The coalition scene
This scene was used to navigate through all the possible coalition combinations between the 7 big factions.
An overview of all factions is shown, which can be expanded or collapsed showing the total number of seats reached by that faction.
By dragging the faction itself into a pie, 3D pie pieces visualize the possible coalitions.
The evolution scene
This scene is used to show the evolution of factions and cartels between the elections of 2004, 2007 and 2009.
By dragging the title of the faction into the bar below, the results of that faction are shown.
By using different discs the results from all the factions could be visualized in an interactive fashion.
This shows us how nicely a Surface can be integrated into any environment, and according to me the application really looks nice so they gain my vote 
Let’s hope they will come up with various nice applications in the future.