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The Communication Studio LLC
Conference Public Kiosk
TCS entrepreneurial project (2 mo.)

By 1986 the Information Industry Association was moving quickly towards interactive electronic online services. We were able to offer them a practical model.

Intro page

Graphical Site Map

Exhibitor Info and Ad

Exhibitor fFoormap

Exhibitor Directory

Quick Schedule

How It Works page

Industry Tradeshow Kiosk

Working in cooperation with the IIA, 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

Cutting Edge Design

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

  • graphic "window frames" for on-screen information sections
  • single-keystroke hotkeys to the information sections
  • automated merging of advertising messages from an "Ad Pool"
  • extensive "one-click" 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 dynamic 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 Textup Context Management System - to complete the screens on time and even add 45 new pages to the site on the first day of the conference.

Point of Sale Advertising We sold additional advertising services to a almost half of the conference participants. As you might expect, the "Joint Venture" section was undeniably the most-accessed information in the Kiosk.

Point-of-Sale Customer Self-service, IBM PC-AT, site maintained on TCS Environment software, pages maintained through the TCS Textup content mangaement utility, NAPLPS vector graphics

Note: The pages displayed here were designed using the limited 16-color palette then standard for most PC's..

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