I'd add automated waiting-room queueing systems - at my local National Health Service health centre there is a brilliantly simple multi-lingual touch-screen for checking in your arrival together with a rather less helpful overhead three-line dot-matrix sign calling checked-in patients to their doctor and room. Francis.
2009/7/7 David Malouf <[email protected]> > Hi David, > > tons of examples: > Bank ATMs > All sorts of ticket vending machines (my faves of the moment): > MTA (New York City) metro card; Airport express train in both > Stockholm & Oslo > Price checkers > auto-open doors & windows > TV/Set top box systems > Keylocks in hotels > airline kiosks > all sorts of medical devices especially those for blood monitoring > and drug allocation. > electronic voting systems. > > Accountability: > please explain more what you mean by accountable? > > -- dave > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43446 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- "Tigers walk behind me, they're there to remind me - I'm lost but I'm not afraid" David Byrne and Brian Eno: Life is long ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
