Lessons in Public Touchscreen Development

Lessons in Public Touchscreen Development

Blog Article

In October 2010, the NCSU Libraries debuted its first public touchscreen information kiosk, Baseball Leather Keychain designed to provide on-demand access to useful and commonly consulted real-time displays of library information.This article presents a description of the hardware and software development process, as well as the rationale behind a variety of design and implementation decisions.This article also provides an analysis of usage of the touchscreen since its debut, including a numerical analysis Baby Toys of most popular content areas, and a heatmap-based analysis of user interaction patterns with the kiosk's interface components.