Continuing our series:  Ten Key Considerations for Exhibit Multimedia Success.

Maintenance, who and how?

In order to get the longest life out of your kiosk computer hardware, you should ...

Continuing our series:  Ten Key Considerations for Exhibit Multimedia Success.

ROI (Return On Investment) is a popular business term, but I believe that too many museums overlook the importance of tracking the ROI of an exhibit.  In simple terms...

Continuing our series:  Ten Key Considerations for Exhibit Multimedia Success.

Although bugs may be interesting creatures, when it comes to bugs in software, you want to make every effort to eradicate them before you open your exhibit.  Basically...

Continuing our series:  Ten Key Considerations for Exhibit Multimedia Success.

Ever since I was a kid, I heard that “Variety is the spice of life.”  And ever since, the variety of everyday things, like TV channels, has grown exponentially...

Anyone with a computer is barraged with scare tactics regarding the security of your computer data.  The most threatening security issues are viruses and hacker attacks.  All of your computer systems in your exhibits (and anywhere in your facility) should be ...

If you plan to hire a vendor to design and develop your touch screen kiosk program, you probably don’t need to be concerned with the interface design because your vendor will be handling that for you.  However, if you are a “do it yourselfer” you should keep some basic design concepts in mind when setting up the user interface.

Time spent planning the touch screen software component of your multimedia kiosk is time well spent.  Without proper planning you can end up with a kiosk that is not very user friendly or worse, vulnerable to malicious behavior.  

The second key consideration in our “Ten Key Considerations for Exhibit Multimedia Success” naturally follows #1 (Hardware Planning) and is Hardware Solutions.  Although hardware solutions can run the gamut in price and options, I’ll do my best to give some basic considerations.

The first key consideration in our “Ten Key Considerations for Exhibit Multimedia Success” is Hardware Planning.  By hardware I mean not only the computer equipment, but also the kiosk housing.

Over the next few months I will share ten key considerations for touch screen exhibit multimedia success.  These considerations are strictly geared toward the usability of the software and hardware...