Kiosk

with Raphael Zwiker, Tobi Delbruck, Stephan Rickauer, David Lawrence

The information kiosk (also known informally as the "propaganda machine") at the entrance to the Institute of Neuroinformatics is designed to provide information to staff and visitors as they walk past.

At the moment the kiosk is based on a 106cm TFT LCD display. It shows animated information slides about the work of the institute, a calendar of upcoming events, a message-of-the-day faciliy, a clock and a "real-time" weather display (or at least as real-time as the weather bureau updates it). The display is connected to the adaptive building intelligence (ABI) system so that a screen saver activates when nobody is standing in front of the screen for a certain amount of time.

As time goes on it will be extended to include interactive features that will showcase some of the technologies being developed at the institute.