Interactive+terminals

=Interactive terminals: The Insight Kiosk cabinet=

**Description:**
Kiosk is a company that makes touch-screen,free-standing devices and this model called The Insight is equipped with a keyboard, scrolling device, telephone handset and a webcam device can also be installed on request. It enables video conferencing and depend on the software you install in the device, it basically enables anything you can do in a regular computer such as internet browsing, messenging and etc. It is interactive and easily accessible.

Kiosk’s cabinets and the idea of having “self-served device” orginated from ATM machines. It is widely used in Healthcare facilities, office buildings, retail establishments and college campuses* because it can be placed in anywhere and can operate 24/7, big buildings/companies that has lots of information find this device very useful in terms of mapping locations/departments within an area, finding information that user need and carry out task by user themselves without a third person (such as taking money out of ATM).

Kiosk also provides a mapping program similar to GPS.

**Insights:**

 * **//Anywhere, Anytime—//**the information that the device contains can be place and time specific. So, if this were to put in York, the same device could have shown different information in two different locations.


 * **//Interactive—//**Since it is interactive, it’s easier for the user to locate themselves in the campus with an interactive map.


 * **//Conferencing—//**with the webcam, handset and keyboard, you can talk to anyone or messenge them anytime

**Possibilities:**

 * **//User as builder of information that put into the device—//**if the user can create and change information in the device and control what it displays, this device can possibily become an interactive public “billboard” that people make announcements to each other.


 * //**Mapping and meeting—**//if user can post events and the location it takes place in the system, it is easier for people to check where the event/person is relative to him/herself.


 * //**Personal/public messenging**//—as the device also comes in the card-swipper, it is possible to access personal account and check the private messenges, reminders, accounts...

> http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/cscl/papers/hosoya.pdf > It is an experimental concept of learning in virtual space(rooms). > Multiple users can navigate themselves in a virtual room and they can modify any objects in the “room” and talk (messenging/audio) with other users. It is an idea for future learning. Although what “objects” should put in the virtual room is undetermined yet in the proposal, but I like the idea of visualizing other users in rooms that are seperated based on different topics. In that way, it can increase the chance of “meeting” people because it is not confined by the time and location being in a specific physical place.
 * **Possible software for Kiosko cabinet:**==HyCLASS==


 * //**Together with Kiosko cabinet,**// it can possibily offers a 3D space /map of the place that adds another dimension to the physical place. You may meet people virtually in the same place you actually located.

Sources:

 * --Insight.FutureTouchTechnology. Retrived at Oct29,2007 from http://www.futuretouchtech.com/cabinetview.asp?id=34

Hosoya, K., Kawanobe, A., Kakuta, S.and Sharma, M.. //Interactive Cooperative Learning System Based on Virtual Shared Space: HyCLASS.// University of Toronto. Retrived at Oct 28,2007 from http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/cscl/papers/hosoya.pdf