Prototype Research – Interactive Screens

This is a posting for the Year 2 Multimedia Project (assignment 2) showing some research for the next assignment…

I have decided to look at Estate Agents and how they display properties to passing customers when the shop is open or perhaps more importantly, closed. A current shop window normally features a number of property adverts (note ‘a number’ and not all adverts) via a photo and a few details about a property on a piece of paper no bigger than A4, this is great but for more details you need to go into the agents and ask for more details or if the agent is closed, go home and find out more details online.

Some agents are lucky enough to have a plasma/lcd screen displaying different properties through the window; this is good but as its non interactive, it doesn’t really allow you find out more details about a property.

My idea is to think of a better way to display more properties in detail to passing customers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. I’m therefore looking at ways to create an interactive system that can sit in the agents’ window/wall to allow customers to find the property they are looking for quickly and easily.

I came across plenty of information for Interactive Shop Windows, this sort of system would be perfect for an estate agent considering the amount of window space they have available. These are links to developers of the product with pictures and videos available:

http://naturalinteraction.org/
http://www.ydreams.com/ydreams_2005/index.php?page=224
http://www.visualtec.es/index2.htm
http://www.displax.com/

This interactive window technology quoted from Displax comes in two different types:

“Displax® Interactive Holo Foil – flexible interactive and holographic technology foils, polyester-based with a self-adhesive surface to be installed onto a glass, acrylic or directly in a shop-window”

“Displax® Interactive Holo inGlass – glass with embedded holographic and interactive tecnologies, making an elegant product, easy to install, ready to be moved or transported from place to place”

More videos of the Interactive Shop Window can be found on YouTube:

Below are some other styles of display technologies that could do a similar job but in a different way, perhaps not entirely suitable for this project however.

‘Minority Report’ style interfaces
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7271&feedid=online-news
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bn-zZX9kdc

Helio Display – Air Video Screen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zRmffRIifE

Samsung 12mm-thick 17-inch OLED TV
http://aving.net/usa/Exhibition/default.asp?mode=read&c_num=26591&sp_code=35&btb_num=232

Any feedback welcomed

 

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