{"id":17362,"date":"2012-07-06T15:01:34","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T20:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=17362"},"modified":"2012-07-10T08:07:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T13:07:27","slug":"ipad-kiosk-helps-visitors-at-hamilton-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2012\/07\/ipad-kiosk-helps-visitors-at-hamilton-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"iPad kiosk helps visitors at Hamilton campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17365\" style=\"width: 464px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17365\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-17365  \" title=\"iPad Kiosk\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ipad-kiosk-1024x850.jpg\" alt=\"An iPad kiosk has been set up at the Hamilton campus to assist visitors.\" width=\"454\" height=\"376\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An iPad kiosk has been set up at the Hamilton campus to assist visitors.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brock University&#8217;s <a title=\"Hamilton Campus\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/node\/19788\" target=\"_blank\">Hamilton campus<\/a> can now be easily navigated with a swipe of the finger.<\/p>\n<p>A new iPad kiosk has been set up at the campus, home to some departments in the <a title=\"Faculty of Education\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/education#\" target=\"_blank\">Faculty of Education<\/a>, allowing students, faculty, staff and visitors to quickly access important information. The kiosk features a live schedule linked into the Hamilton room-booking system, a campus map and campus directory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The schedule should help all users of the campus figure out where a meeting, class or event is taking place, but the directory and the map are most useful to new or infrequent visitors to the campus,&#8221; said Kyle Tuck, systems administrator and technician.<\/p>\n<p>Initiated by the faculty&#8217;s computer services department, the project began to develop and evolve with some added inspiration coming from an unlikely place: a contest entry kiosk at a shopping mall with a system driven by an iPad.<\/p>\n<p>Tuck then searched for and tested a few iPad kiosk apps, finding one easily configured to use with a predefined URL. An app and mounting hardware prevents people from using the kiosk as a personal device.<\/p>\n<p>With one kiosk in place, funded by Fiona Blaikie, Dean of the faculty, there are plans to install a second unit at the south entrance of the campus. Depending on how well the kiosks are used and feedback, kiosks may be added at each entrance.<\/p>\n<p>Computer services will also evaluate the possibility of installing the kiosks for the faculty at the St. Catharines campus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a much larger campus and could really help new students and visitors find their way around,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University&#8217;s Hamilton campus can now be easily navigated with a swipe of the finger. A new iPad kiosk has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":17363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[378,98,104,377],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17362"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17390,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17362\/revisions\/17390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}