Over the last couple months I’ve been developing some digital signage kiosk software for shopping malls in Southern California. One requirement of this software is that it should cycle content (advertisements, coupons, videos, etc) and provide touchscreen features (print coupons, signup for mall events) on-demand without ever being interrupted.
The kiosks should NEVER be instructed to navigate to an external website or URL because this would break the automated content cycle.
As we progressed through several development phases, what initially seemed easy – keeping the kiosk cycle running 24/7 – soon became a difficult task. We also had the problem of getting people to actually use the kiosks. Who wants to be sucked into an advertising loop anyhow? So we started adding more features in order to bring awareness and attention to the usefulness of the kiosks.
Glass Ocean is Perry Butler's personal website. Perry is a professional IT Manager and Software Engineer. He also likes producing music and inventing new things.