WAYFINDING KIOSK – INTERACTIVE TOUCH DEVICE

A wayfinding kiosk is a device that you come across when you need it. You can rely on it, ask for good advice and get accurate information.

Imagine that you are a stranger, a tourist. A foreigner in a hurry. You are flight presiding, so you optimistically came to the city center, to spend the time until your next fly.

Also, you should stop by the record store or just breathe the air in front of the Sagrada Familia, and you will continue on your way.

The question is, how to get from point A to point B quickly and see all the desired destinations in between?

WAYFINDING KIOSK IS A GOOD OLD MAP IN A NEW SUIT 

It has a steel construction to leave the impression of reliability, which is the most important thing on your way.

The screen measures 49 inches or 124.5 cm. The map in front of you is enormous as the map you would pull out of your bag and start fighting the wind. There is just no wind, and the information is more detailed. While searching for the desired destination on the map displayed on the screen, you can also get the following information

– How long does it take you to get to the desired place?

– Where is the nearest taxi?

– Provides an advanced and easy search of all vital service information (pharmacies, hospitals, municipalities…) and tourist attractions.

– Wayfinding shows you where you can park.

– Helps deaf and voiceless people to communicate

– Helps people who are in wheelchairs

– At the service for the elder

You can not use an old map to explore a new world, said Albert Einstein

If we read this Einstein’s wisdom word by word, we could ask ourselves – do we really need a new map?!

In fact, we need an old map that we will upgrade and prepare for new achievements.

The wayfinding kiosk is an excellent old map in a new suit. It has additional skills. With it, we can explore a new world and get the correct information at the right time.So, you can read an old map and ask the web for new information and directions to explore a new world.

WHAT DOES A WAYFINDING KIOSK LOOK LIKE?

Modern design, highly functional and economical – saves time and thus money. Friendly and kind guide! It takes you through the city, offices, floors, events, institutions.

Wayfinding kiosk is an interactive kiosk that starts visual content with the touch of a hand and provides you with information supported by the text. Visual content is long remembered. The application’s content can also be downloaded by scanning QR codes (the function is optional and depends on the needs), so the text stays with you for a long time. You can read it whenever you need it.

It has an exciting design. Every detail is designed to look reliable and modern and brings warmth with its azure blue line.

The content of the wayfinding kiosk is crucial here.

Depending on the areas in which it is used, its external appearance and internal content are adjusted.

The kiosk changes the old way of using maps and the signs on the walls and floors of the institutions.

There is a greater need to install a wayfinding kiosk in the areas where many people ordinates. It finds the most significant application in the following areas:

– City squares, tourist cities (Mećavnik, Srbija; Sirogojno, Srbija; Woven City- Mount Fuji, Japan)

– Shopping malls

– Hospitals

– Airports

– Restaurants

– Galeries

– Museums

– Schools

– Various industries

HOW DOES WAYFINDING KIOSK WORK?

Suppose you want a kiosk to be found in your organization, company, at your event. In that case, you should know how the Wayfinding kiosk works.

1. The functions on display are clearly set.
2. It is simple signaling and easily recognizable. It uses universal symbols and images.
3. Each path has its own content that breaks down basic information into details. The most significant advantage of a wayfinding kiosk is that it knows its users and has prepared answers for them.
4. All paths are connected, each sign leads to the next.

HOW IT ASSISTS YOU

1. Speaks more and better, precisely and clearly

2. Shows what you are looking for and adds content so it shows you deeper.

3.  It’s fast. Saves time because you do not spend a lot of time using it. Giving you information at the current time, allows you speed while moving, orienting, navigating.

4.  The interactive display enables communication,  answers the desired questions according to the given criteria.

These would be the primary functions of the kiosk wayfinding, while the secondary ones complement them. Secondary functions would be:

– 3 D view of the building you are in as well as the plan of the entire space (divided into floors, departments, rooms, buildings …)

– POP-Ups, that upgrade information.

– QR codes – with scanning codes, you will download information and always have it with you.

– QR codes that allow you to pay certain services to the organization (restaurants, hospitals, schools …)

The Wayfinding kiosk, in addition to its primary function of helping the user navigate the space and surroundings, can also be upgraded with content. With this upgrade, the kiosk could be:

1.  Self-ordering kiosk (food, tickets, supplies, goods, groceries)

2. Check-in kiosks

3. Event registration kiosk

EXAMPLES OF USING A WAYFINDING KIOSK

Hospitals are sensitive places, so you need a wayfinding kiosk adjusted to all users. It is a user-friendly wayfinding kiosk.

This implies the following precise characteristics:

– marked room capacities, schedules, distance, position

– a clearly marked walking region for the disabled and for those who are not

– marked freight elevators and pedestrian elevators

– wheelchair – mode that would move the entire site organization to an accessible place, at the height of a man in a wheelchair.

– Wayfinding kiosk can have handrails (on the device itself or right next to it) that help support those who have difficulty moving.

– symbols and terminology should be simple to make the content clear to all types of users.

If the wayfinding is set up in some town squares, accessible to a more significant number of people, different features would be relevant.

Wayfinding presents the map, showing the right path to the desired point. It makes it easy to search and calculate how many steps you need, how much gasoline, or how much time. Modern man loves details and is constantly looking for more information to basic. It is not enough to say approximately how many minutes it takes from the airport to the center of Barcelona, but it is imperative now days to:

– recalculate steps;

– calculate burned calories;

– knowing which paths are the fastest and which are the shortest.

THE FUNCTIONS THAT WAYFINDING POSSESSES ARE IN LINE WITH THE ACHIEVEMENT THAT WAYFINDING HAS.

While organizing large gatherings, wayfinding could help the guest get information about:

– free parking space;

– where the elevator is located;

– where the room is located;

– which way to go to a specific reception hall;

– how he can find a manager of a particular sector (in addition to finding premises and giving specific directions, he can also find people, i.e., their offices).

A tourist from the beginning of the text (who rushes from the airport to the city center to buy a music record) interacts with a wayfinding kiosk. He asks questions essential for its management and can sometimes ask questions for fun and upgrade his knowledge. You will be pleasantly surprised when you realize that the Hola interactive display can warmly greet you and wish you luck on the road.

The new map is a need for a modern man and an excellent investment for a current modern employer because he is investing in the future with this kiosk.
Do you think a wayfinding kiosk would be a good solution for your business organization or your city?
If you recognize the possible potential of the device in your organization, contact us.