Comments on: Kiosk Hardware /2007/07/05/kiosk-hardware/ Technology blog of the Brooklyn Museum Fri, 04 Apr 2014 18:44:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 By: Shelley Bernstein /2007/07/05/kiosk-hardware/comment-page-1/#comment-216 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:32:42 +0000 /bloggers/2007/07/05/kiosk-hardware/#comment-216 There’s no good way to answer this question. It depends on what kind of hardware you decide is best for your environment. For instance, touch screens (size, type, etc), space limitations (need for smaller or more specialized systems, kvms for remote control), case design can all affect pricing. You pretty much need to decide what you need and then price out the components.

]]> By: Michael Buckley /2007/07/05/kiosk-hardware/comment-page-1/#comment-215 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:19:34 +0000 /bloggers/2007/07/05/kiosk-hardware/#comment-215 Can anyone shed some light on overall pricing for these various kiosk setups. We’re looking for a good match for a very small museum and looking at the touch screen single user setup and the multiple viewer seated arrangement with an overhead speaker. Any information would be helpful. Thanks.

]]> By: Shelley Bernstein /2007/07/05/kiosk-hardware/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:59:01 +0000 /bloggers/2007/07/05/kiosk-hardware/#comment-20 @Tamara – we do different apps for different installations, depending on what each show calls for. In all cases the information is also on the web, but the version may be slightly different for web delivery. Often, the web version will be smaller (as is the case of The Dinner Party Virtual Tour). The kiosk version will be formatted a bit better for touch screens. The changes are slight and the information is the same on the back-end.

In our Luce Visible Storage area, the kiosks run an HTML database app, so visitors can look up more information about what they see in the storage cases.
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/research/luce/

In Egypt Reborn, the kiosks run different flash apps that are specific to certain objects.
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/kiosk/egyptian/ancient-egypt/

In The Dinner Party, the kiosks run a full size version of the virtual tour w/ the database for each place setting and heritage floor name.
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/place_settings/webtour/

In our lobby, we have a kiosk designated to allow visitors to sign up for our e-mail list.

In our special exhibition areas, we have comment kiosks that allow visitors to enter their comments about the shows directly so they are displayed both in the gallery and on the web.
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/community/comment/

]]> By: Tamara Georgick /2007/07/05/kiosk-hardware/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:04:23 +0000 /bloggers/2007/07/05/kiosk-hardware/#comment-18 I was interested in the content of what you present on the kiosks and what your approach is in creating material to be delivered via the kiosks. Right now, I am thinking that our kiosks (due to be installed in 2008) will mirror some of our educational web content that is designed to provide a context for working with artifacts as primary resources. Of course, that sounds dry, but on the web/kiosk it will be graphical and interactive. I also think this approach will help the users create a museum experience at home or in a classroom.

Can you provide more info on how you approached this? Is any of the kiosk content viewable outside of the museum? Are there any opportunities for users to input tags, comments or other personalized content on the kiosks?

]]> By: Shelley Bernstein /2007/07/05/kiosk-hardware/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:13:26 +0000 /bloggers/2007/07/05/kiosk-hardware/#comment-6 In our installation for the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, we used BlackBox extenders to run VGA over standard copper. The runs were not that long, we just needed to centralize hardware. The BlackBoxes are pretty good, but they require the monitor and cpu to be turned on in a sequence which is a bit difficult to deal with for the long haul. These extenders are not 1 to many like the Matrox, but that’s what we needed since each person needs to be able to manipulate each kiosk independent of the others.

http://www.blackbox.com/Catalog/Category.aspx?cid=537,1374,1377

]]> By: Matt Morgan /2007/07/05/kiosk-hardware/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:25:19 +0000 /bloggers/2007/07/05/kiosk-hardware/#comment-5 Check out this new device from Matrox, just reviewed:

http://www.trustedreviews.com/displays/review/2007/07/10/Matrox-Extio-Remote-Multi-Display-System/p1

It allows the PC to be up to 250 meters from the monitor, mouse, and keyboard, and you can connect up to four monitors to the PC. I don’t know of any other way connect multiple monitors to one PC, at a distance (fancy KVM switches work the other way around–many PCs, one monitor, which is not great for kiosks :-)).

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