Originally developed in 2017, the interactive kiosk has been one of my favourite projects to lead. Stationed at Canada's Penitentiary Museum in Kingston, the kiosk sees close to 50,000 visitors per year. The kiosks themselves are also repurposed for a variety of other applications like digital signage, other interactive applications, and more.
The kiosk was originally purchased to be a digital signage tool. After seeing how it operated, I had the idea to develop an interactive application to make full use of the interactivity that was otherwise being wasted. Management allowed me to run with it and I was able to both design and develop an effective interactive application that featured a wide variety of information about CSC. Featuring an interactive map, photos and videos that myself and my colleagues have shot, as well as interactive infographics, the kiosk has been very well received by both employees and the general public. From designing mockups to fixing bugs in the code, the kiosk is a project that always challenges the entirety of my skillset as a creative professional.
Being a large touchscreen computer, the kiosk is a playground with nearly endless possibilities. While priorities have shifted on my direct team and kiosk work is not a priority, I'm always keeping an eye out for ways to use it in our projects.
A recent example of this is when executive leadership came to our team for assistance in purchasing a large printed display wall that would show all of CSC's executives and titles in the main lobby. Rather than constantly re-printing and updating it, I suggested we use a kiosk to show the executives digitally. Since then, I've updated it several times and even used it to promote some internal events for GCWCC.
