The Galaxy was the Angry Monkey presentation shell application. It was designed (by myself) to show our capacity to innovate and use new technological ideas. In it's original form it was controlled entirely via speech recognition, the presenter wearing a wireless microphone. However a keyboard based mode of interaction and a mouse based form of interaction were also implemented.

Click here for a demo version. You may need to install the Shockwave plugin.

Notes for usage.

(1) Clicking and dragging anywhere will spin the galaxy.

(2) Clicking on a star and typing the first letter of it's name will select it.

(3) Double-clicking or hitting the space bar will give you the deeper content of the selected star (if there is any).

(4) Ideas are classified as either "products", "companies" or "entertainment". Typing "c", "e" or "pr" will reveal all the stars in the particular category. Typing "z" will reveal all stars.

Technical notes:

As a shell, it contained no knowledge of what it was going to present. At run time it would traverse a directory structure and work out what it had to show. All the speech recognition keywords were derived from the file names. The presence of deeper level content was worked out on the fly together with the content type (Director movie, Flash movie or Quicktime movie). This proved to be a system that someone with no technical knowledge could update to make their own custom presentation. There is also a key combination that would print out a cheat sheet of voice commands and instructions.