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- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 13:18:22 CDT
- Sender: "Campus-Wide Information Systems" <CWIS-L@WUVMD.BITNET>
- From: Susan Cromwell <SC06015@UAFSYSB.UARK.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Campus Information Kiosks
- In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 8 Sep 1992 15:18:13 EDT from <CCGWOJ@GSUVM1>
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- We are installing our first information kiosk in a visitor center this
- month. The University of Arkansas Information Kiosk is designed
- with Macromind Director (now Macromedia) on a Mac IIci with Rasterops
- STV board for NTSC video in a window; video is pressed to a videodisc and
- read on a Pioneer 8000 player. We use keyboard with built-in trackball
- for navigating through Macromind; the kiosk is also networked to our
- CWIS, currently CUINFO-based but by next month it will be gopher. So,
- the design is such that you click on buttons to activate video clips about
- certain college programs, etc., and/or you 'switch over' to the
- gopher interface to see current events schedule and other CWIS items.
- We hope to incorporate the gopher interface so that all functions are
- achieved through the Macromind 'movie' interface for interactivity instead
- of having to switch screen presentation formats as we currently do.
- We also hope to move away from NTSC video on laserdisc to Quicktime movies
- (digital) when new QT is released which will allow variable window size and
- near-motion video quality.
-
- I'm happy to share more details if needed.
-
- Susan Cromwell
- Assistant Director
- Computing Services
- University of Arkansas
- 501-575-2905
-