Project Number
- 9
Title
- EXPO'92 Guest Information System
Description
- Multilingual information kiosk system for a 1992 Universal Exposition in Seville, Spain.
Contact
- Lauretta Jones
Affiliation
- IBM Corporation
Address
- T.J. Watson Research Center
- P.O. Box 704 J2-A31
- Yorktown Heights, New York 10598
- +1.914.784.6324 fax
- P.O. Box 704 J2-A31
- ljones@watson.ibm.com
WWW
Year
- 1991
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 91 Tomorrow's Realities Program
Project Details
- A multilingual information kiosk system designed for a Universal Exposition in Seville, Spain (1992).
- A touch-sensitive screen interface for a multimedia hypermedia presentation of over 10,000 maps and scanned images through an information network of 33 kiosks containing seven guest stations (PC) and a local server.
- A multilingual, multicultural visual interface to easily access a vast amount of dynamically changing/presented information.
Sight
- IBM PS/2 33MHz, 1280x1024 touch screens, still video camera
Sound
- audio microphones, speakers
Touch
- touch sensitive screen
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 5 - Established, Finished
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 308 - information / commerce
Secondary
- 101 - hypermedia, hypertext
Remarks
- Drag-and-drop interface with a visual "history" map that records current path of navigation.
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