Talk:Interactive kiosk

message: Is there a reliable source for the information that says Japan has as many vending machines and internet kiosks as it has people? If it is true, it still sounds like a fairly outlandish claim that could damage the article's credibility; a source to quote on statistics is nice. 11:48, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Unverified information

message: You still have promotional links from people on this page that are not mainstream players in the interactive kiosk market. they are using this page for promo purpose (acrelec for example). They don't even register on published research radar. Ckeefner (talk) 03:23, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  related links 

message: There is a page for self-service kiosks? How is that different from interactive kiosks? Or is it just a new page created so that someone else can promote that phrase since they have websites for paid content for that phrase? Ckeefner (talk) 03:25, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  related links are duplicates 

message: people are putting in external links here for business purposes, and separate section for external links. Is that against guidelines? Also this page should really be subpage of self-service shouldn't it? Ckeefner (talk) 19:41, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Link to for profit sites deleted.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ckeefner (talk • contribs) 04:33, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  external links 

message: I am the programmer who implemented the PLATO Hotline in 1977.  Murray Lappe came up with the idea and some of the design for the Hotline but did not do any of the technical work.  I was an undergrad at the university and was hired to write the program.  Murray designed the diamond shaped front page and sketched out the user interface in each of the subtopics.  I took his design and fleshed out the UI design, designed the database layout (my first database project!) and wrote all of the code (in TUTOR).  It was a fun project but I did not know until reading this article that it was the first kiosk software, or at least is considered to be so by Arc Design Consulting.  After it was installed, I sometimes hung around the Student Union where the terminal was located, to watch people interact with my software.  I don't remember many "queues" as the Arc Design article claims, although it was certainly a novelty to have a computer terminal out in a public place at that time, and it attracted attention.
Mnudelman (talk) 00:32, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some PLATO Hotline history 

message: The first self-service, interactive kiosk was developed in 1977 at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign by a pre-med student, Murray Lappe. The content was created on the PLATO computer system and accessible by the plasma touch screen interface. The plasma display panel was invented at the University of Illinois by Donald L. Bitzer. Lappe's kiosk, called The Plato Hotline allowed students and visitors to find movies, maps, directories, bus schedules, extracurricular activities, and courses. When it debuted in the U of Illinois Student Union in April 1973.
, more than 30,000 students, teachers, and visitors stood in line during its first 6 weeks, to try their hand at a "personal computer" for the first time.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.169.181.50 (talk) 14:38, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  paragraph removed from main article because of multiple issues