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In-gallery screens

A gallery screen fails in ways an office screen never does. It runs for months with nobody looking, it gets touched by thousands of people, and when it breaks the first person to notice is a visitor.

visitors at a large touchscreen
2018 09 13 NAU ED TECH 163 by Geofflambeth, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What you get

01

Built from the same records

A label companion or a kiosk reads the objects your app and site already read, so a correction is made once.

02

Recovers on its own

After a power cut it comes back into the right state, at the right screen, without anybody visiting the machine.

03

Content changes from where you write

The same place you edit everything else. Nobody carries a USB stick into the gallery.

04

Tells you before a visitor does

It reports when it stops, so the first you hear of it is not somebody at the front desk.

What I need from you
  • What the screen has to show, and where it stands
  • The hardware you already own, or that you want a recommendation
  • Whether it is touched by the public or driven by staff
  • Who can reach it physically, and how often

Start with a conversation

Tell me what you have now and what is going wrong with it. If it turns out this is not the thing you need, I will say so.