Touch-screen Kiosk Research Articles

Health information for the millennium and beyond

Health information for the millennium and beyond

The Manchester Community Information Network

The Electronic Library spoke to Alec Gallimore, who is Central Library Manager of Manchester Public Libraries. In Manchester the public library has joined with the Citizens Advice Bureau, a national firm of management consultants, local voluntary groups and city council departments to establish the Manchester Community Information Network (http://www.poptel.org.uk/mcin/), a project designed to provide community information through public terminals in the form of World Wide Web pages with access to local databases. There is also a project to develop public information touch screen kiosks.

Internet shopping comes to the high street

Recent market research by city firm Deloittes found that shopping was regarded as ‘a chore to be avoided at all costs’ by a large proportion of the population - and as many as 55% of those under 34. The answer may have been provided by another survey by Financial Times/Datamonitor which forecast that there will be nearly 10,000 touchscreen kiosks throughout the UK be the end of the decade