Offer the visitor a rewarding experience when viewing and finding the content.
Be well designed with good use of branding.
Entice the visitor to browse for more information.
As there is no mouse or keyboard input and the navigation needs to accommodate using your fingers - hence effort is required to get the balance between design and functionality right.
Essentially, to offer the user a rewarding experience in locating the information they require and while they are guided through the interactive process.
Interacting with a collection
The touchscreen interface that integrates with the CollectionOD via a product that offers the various search and retrieval options.
The touchscreen site provides the user-interface to interact with your collection's data and images. Search options will include - keeping in mind keyboard / mouse input is not available:
Guided searches - below are some examples of what can be offered:
Look up via the names of the artists, photographers, creators, ...
Look up via the location of items.
Look up via type of item.
Browse through the images - from start to finish or only images of a certain type.
Every search option must provide:
Clear and distinct list of search results with basic documentation and perhaps a thumbnail.
Access to relative components, for example: if browsing through artworks, you can click to view all artworks in the same location, by the same artist, etc.
Easily view full documentation and images associated with an item.
Support / Help / Tips:
Provide support / help manual which explains the content, functionality and various search tips.
Technical info:
Your touchscreen will use data that is recorded and managed in the CollectionOD. You can select the information to display and block records entirely.
The CollectionOD has the functionality to export to a single file that is stored on the touchscreen computer. This file can be updated at any time.
Touchscreens let the visitor to your organisation to interact directly with your collection.
A touchscreen kiosk can be developed to suit your environment - with your custom branding.
Add additional screens next to the touchscreen so other visitors can view someone interacting with your collection.