Seen & Noted: A nice video demonstration showing digital signage and touchscreen technology in use at New York's Official Information Centers. Touch-screen stations direct you to top NYC attractions in 10 languages. Giant interactive tables enable you can explore restaurants, shops, museums and more on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood basis and print a personalized itinerary to take with you.
GestureTek designed and fabricated the multi-touch projection tables incorporating both finger touch and object recognition. Unlike a typical touch screen, the multi-touch display uses a “puck” type object that contains a unique bar code recognized by the system. Visitors place the puck on their desired destinations. Speakers located in the overhead boxes above the tables provide audio feedback indicating to the visitor that a valid a selection has been made. After making their choices, visitors can place the puck on a ‘pylon’ to automatically print-out their customized itinerary.
By placing the puck on the pylon, a Google Earth “Fly-through” showing the visitors destinations are displayed on the video wall. Audio associated with the program, and feedback indicating that the puck has been recognized plays back through an internal speaker in the pylon, and through the speaker system installed on the wall above the video screens.
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