Talk:Interactive kiosk

Merger of Kiosk and Interactive kiosk
Please don't merge these articles -- see Talk:Kiosk.  23:47, August 22, 2005 (UTC)


 * I have done it the other way round, i e put the final part of the Kiosk article here. This article still has to be wikified, hopefully by someone who won't create too many (double) redirects.  12:00, August 24, 2005 (UTC)

Unverified information
Is there a reliable source for the information that says Japan has as many vending machines and internet kiosks as it has people? If it is true, it still sounds like a fairly outlandish claim that could damage the article's credibility; a source to quote on statistics is nice. 11:48, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

(moved) "They are particularly common in Japan, where the number of vending machines and Internet-connected kiosks is probably greater than the human population." Vending machines states that Japan has approximately 23 vending machines per capita; I very much doubt that this statement can be verified. Insomnius 18:27, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

promotional links
There are several manufacturers of Vending kiosks and the Redbox link and Solection link (no longer exists) should be removed? The self-order kiosk from Acrelec should be removed.

Personally the Internet Kiosk page is really no place for any of these other sectors such as Vending or Movie Ticket/etc. We've defaulted to just included all verticals on this one vertical page.

7/2008 -- Suggestions for kiosk in general

Good to see information about archaic kiosks (buildings where news distributed). Question is what is best: talking about kiosks (electronic) that are relevant and used primarily and subjugating the archaic?

Archaic buildings like that (and POP fixtures in malls for that matter) are relevant but focusing on them tends to communicate that they are predominant, and they are not.

Also -- the subpages like Internet Kiosk should be about internet kiosks. The internet kiosk page for the last 4 years has mutated into a everything you need to know about kiosks in general and relatively nothing about internet kiosks (ie pay for use cybercafes of which there are 10s of thousands in China. Maybe we don't want to talk about those?

kiosk history
I recommend adding back in the Kiosk History off craig keefner's site. Craig began in kiosks 15 years ago as moderator for newsgroup CIK and founded the current kiosk association at selfservice.org and his history has milestones/events in the "Electronic Kiosk" industry that are found nowhere else.

related links
You still have promotional links from people on this page that are not mainstream players in the interactive kiosk market. they are using this page for promo purpose (acrelec for example). They don't even register on published research radar. Ckeefner (talk) 03:23, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

related links are duplicates
There is a page for self-service kiosks? How is that different from interactive kiosks? Or is it just a new page created so that someone else can promote that phrase since they have websites for paid content for that phrase? Ckeefner (talk) 03:25, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Some PLATO Hotline history
I am the programmer who implemented the PLATO Hotline in 1977. Murray Lappe came up with the idea and some of the design for the Hotline but did not do any of the technical work. I was an undergrad at the university and was hired to write the program. Murray designed the diamond shaped front page and sketched out the user interface in each of the subtopics. I took his design and fleshed out the UI design, designed the database layout (my first database project!) and wrote all of the code (in TUTOR). It was a fun project but I did not know until reading this article that it was the first kiosk software, or at least is considered to be so by Arc Design Consulting. After it was installed, I sometimes hung around the Student Union where the terminal was located, to watch people interact with my software. I don't remember many "queues" as the Arc Design article claims, although it was certainly a novelty to have a computer terminal out in a public place at that time, and it attracted attention. Mnudelman (talk) 00:32, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

paragraph removed from main article because of multiple issues
The first self-service, interactive kiosk was developed in 1977 at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign by a pre-med student, Murray Lappe. The content was created on the PLATO computer system and accessible by the plasma touch screen interface. The plasma display panel was invented at the University of Illinois by Donald L. Bitzer. Lappe's kiosk, called The Plato Hotline allowed students and visitors to find movies, maps, directories, bus schedules, extracurricular activities, and courses. When it debuted in the U of Illinois Student Union in April 1973. , more than 30,000 students, teachers, and visitors stood in line during its first 6 weeks, to try their hand at a "personal computer" for the first time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.169.181.50 (talk) 14:38, 4 September 2022 (UTC)