For several years my observations from different trade shows and exhibitions just proved that the design of interactive kiosks tends to become more complex and sophisticated.
An easy research shows a long history of The Interactive Kiosk – hereinafter referred to as kiosk.
In April of 1977 the first kiosk, called The Plato Hotline, was presented to the public by two students at the University of Illinois. Murray Lappe built the content of information on courses, extra-curricular activities, bus timetables, movies and maps using the PLATO computer system. The user touch screen interface was built on plasma display panel invented by Donald L. Bitzer.
It took five years from touch screen debut to be presented at the Knoxville International Energy Exposition in 1982 with the theme “Energy Turns the World”. Since then, interactive kiosks for very different purposes have grown in demand worldwide. There are no official stats on that number but it could be over 150,000 kiosks just in the US alone (as of at the end of 2012).
This blog was started as an endeavour of showing how to simplify and reduce the cost of one of the most important elements of any exposition – the kiosk. Maybe you already noticed some relations between the title of this blog and title of the first post?
Or you may think that PowerPoint and Kiosk are unrelated, and there is no connection between these two phenomena?
That’s completely wrong.
I have practically established the Kiosk concept based entirely on the well known, the most popular in the world standard application.
