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Thread ID: 124591 2012-05-05 10:46:00 Your opinion of proposed visitor registration kiosk SolutionsArch (16776) PC World Chat
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1273762 2012-05-05 10:46:00 Hi everyone,

Our firm has decided to implement a visitor registration kiosk.
If anyone has had experience implementing a Visitor Rego kiosk
please give feedback on experience, good comments with possible recommendations.

Thanks in advance!
SolutionsArch (16776)
1273763 2012-05-05 10:49:00 Im no business owner but it might help others if they new what the firm was/did stratex5 (16685)
1273764 2012-05-05 10:53:00 I'm not entirely sure it's relevant, as the "sign in / sign out" process is semi universal across all businesses.

Are they looking to go touchscreen or only physical keyboard?
Chilling_Silence (9)
1273765 2012-05-05 22:00:00 The client I work for currently has self-registration kiosks - touch-screen only (PC interface, not tablet), which seems to baffle more than a few visitors. My recommendation would be to either go with a touch-screen PLUS physical keyboard if you're going down the PC path, or use a tablet (like an iPad) - people seem more familiar with the tablet size and functionality. Touch-screen on a 22 inch screen is still a bit weird for some people (and the on-screen keyboard for PC isn't implemented as well as on-screen keyboards for tablets).

If you go with the tablet solution, build some software that will allow the details to be filled out using the Bump app (Android and iOS), just pulling info out of the 'bump' that is relevant to the visit
johcar (6283)
1273766 2012-05-05 22:34:00 When we were building our touch screen the main (business) intention was as a customer information/display system. We also found many wished to implement in the same way you want to.

Chill and johcar are right, some people are a bit baffled by a touch screen PC at first BUT it will work great if the software is great. Make it simple and straightforward with as little data entry as possible. Try and keep it to big buttons. A Physical keyboard is useful especially if you go the tablet route (or if the touchscreen technology uses a capacitive digitizer) since users with gloves or the like won't be able to use it. It also gives people choice.

Then again, we might be digging too deep here, visitor kiosk might not even have a touch screen.
The Error Guy (14052)
1273767 2012-05-05 22:36:00 I'm an alarm tech and I sign in and out of places all day and a lot of businesses have these. Just make sure it's simple and explains everything clearly and it will work fine. pine-o-cleen (2955)
1273768 2012-05-06 00:09:00 Pretty sure our one at work is driven off a MS Access database. Two big buttons on the front screen - sign in; sign out. A visitors sticker is printed out with their details and includes a barcode. This barcode is then scanned when checking out. The visitor sticker also clearly identifies that person as an official visitor.

It is run off a standard PC with mouse/keyboard with a 15" LCD monitor. This also allows quick swap-outs in the event of hardware failure.
Jen (38)
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