Cyberhomes Limited

The installation had to be in keeping with other exhibits within the museum and
also had to be extremely simple to use as there is a varied type of customers who
will be using the display.

Cyberhomes developed an interactive kiosk which displays an audio and visual presentation simply controlled through a lectern interface.

• Flat screen LCD Display
• Interactive Kiosk

 

The museum already had a number of audio only kiosks installed. They consisted
of a push button and audio presentation of past members of the community
reflecting on their experiences of Thame.

When the museum asked if it were possible to utilize a plasma screen to create a more visual approach we knew we had an unusual project to concentrate on.

In order to make all aspects of the displays the same we decided to use the same kiosk approach. The difference being that instead of a simple commentary next to a fixed photo, we would have a photographic slide show with voice or soundtrack accompanying.

The kiosk needed to have 8 individual slide shows with a pause/resume button so that any customer could pause a still to view a little longer than the slide allowed. There was also the fact that every button needed to have a function. The result was such that regardless where a slide show was if a customer wanted to swap to a different show or pause the functions could happen straight away without any glitches. In order to do this we used a compact flash disk player. All buttons were wired to the player, all neatly contained within the kiosk. The pause feature lasted for 20 seconds before resuming the previous slide show.

At the end of the slide show the system would display a mixed slide show of images without audio so that it still had an appealing feel to it without a monotonous soundtrack repeating.

 

One of the requirements the Staff at the museum had was that they wanted to be able to create their own slide shows and audio soundtracks whenever they pleased. Cyberhomes supplied two separate pieces of software and a flash disk reader to create the slide shows on.

Full software training was then given along with a bullet point manual which allowed them to refer back to after the training process.

• Audionation - Flash disk player
• Audiopost - Interactive Lectern
• Audio/Visual - Denon
• LCD Display - Sharp 32 inch
• Software - Adobe Photoshop/Premiere