Working in cooperation with the organization, we created an interactive information kiosk for use on the Exhibit Floor at the IIA annual conference in New York. The 500+ screen database was the public debut for the TCS Environment site software:

Exhibitor Directory
Exhibitor Floormap
Bulletin Board
Information About the IIA
Conference Meeting Update
Quick Schedule
Joint Venture partnering list
Graphic Presentation Showcase
Help/Tutorial section
Automated Ad Billboard

The Communication Studio pioneered some features that were cutting edge for 1986:

• graphic "window frames" for on-screen information sections
• single-keystroke global access to the information sections
• automated merging of advertising messages from an "Ad Pool"
• cross-referencing between an alphabetic directory of exhibitors and a physical map of exhibit booths
• animated graphics
• default timeouts to a pre-configured scrolling ad show if the kiosk was not in use
• automated presentational "mini-shows"
• on-screen graphic confirmation ("highlighting") of user selections

Although we did not receive most of the informational content from the IIA until two weeks before the conference, we were able - by using our TCS Textup context management tool - to complete the screens on time and even add 45 new pages to the site on the first day of the conference.