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Does anyone actually like using touchscreen displays. I commonly have to use one in order to collect prepaid train tickets. The only reason they are okay is because there is minimal interaction. Some museum kiosks can be very interesting but tend to always give the feeling that you could be viewing it at home on a CD-ROM. You always find that the most interesting ones attract a crowd and that someone tries to hog it for as long as possible. I was thinking about it when developing a kiosk prototype for the Museum of Costume project and it just struck me as being a silly gimmick. Was testing it out in conjunction with a real touch screen which wasn't effective for the only reason that the computer connected to it runs awfully slow. Still it's kind of a nice gimmick.

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10/26/2003