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Hotel Improves Guest Experience and Sales Potential With Multitouch Computing
Seattle's Hotel 1000 constantly seeks to differentiate itself through leading-edge technology and a personalized guest experience. This helps increase on-property spending and repeat visits for both business and leisure travelers. One of the ways that the hotel achieves its goal is through unique technologies, including one of the first customized installations of the Microsoft Surface software and computing platform. Using this multitouch, multiuser device, guests can access a virtual concierge, share photos and videos, and view hotel offerings. Guests gather and become friends around Microsoft Surface for a truly interactive, collaborative, and enjoyable experience that nurtures guest loyalty.
131 days ago by MicrosoftReal Estate Giant Engages Homebuyers With Innovative Solution, Interactive Computer
Coldwell Banker Real Estate wanted to expand the ways in which customers start down the home-buying path. Building on its belief in using technological innovations to their fullest, the company decided to pursue a solution using the Microsoft Surface touch-computing platform. Early in the solution's research-and-development stage, the company's digital media partner, FD Kinesis, attended an Architecture Design Session at a Microsoft Technology Center. There, FD Kinesis validated its ideas and gained access to resources that would help the firm complete the project in time for Coldwell Banker to unveil it at its annual conference.
141 days ago by MicrosoftLogistics Company Expands Communications Capabilities With Messaging Solution
Seattle's Hotel 1000 constantly seeks to differentiate itself through leading-edge technology and a personalized guest experience. This helps increase on-property spending and repeat visits for both business and leisure travelers. One of the ways that the hotel achieves its goal is through unique technologies, including one of the first customized installations of the Microsoft Surface software and computing platform. Using this multitouch, multiuser device, guests can access a virtual concierge, share photos and videos, and view hotel offerings. Guests gather and become friends around Microsoft Surface for a truly interactive, collaborative, and enjoyable experience that nurtures guest loyalty.
141 days ago by MicrosoftCapacitive Buttons Fashion or Trend?
Touchscreens are well integrated into modern commercial landscape. One finds them on mobile phones, grocery store check-out counters, ATMs, airport check-in kiosks, gas pumps, and elsewhere. While resistive touchscreen technology still accounts for the majority of the touchscreen market, more manufacturers are employing capacitive touchscreens. Capacitive technology detects the capacitance that one's finger introduces to several wires under the device interface, and the user does not have to physically "Push" the button. Capacitive touchscreens are designed to work with finger, which brings a new ability to manipulate objects on the screen via hand and finger gestures.
166 days ago by SynapticsHP TouchSmart PC Fulfills Hope for Students With Special Needs
All 120 students at Hope Technology School (HTS) in Palo Alto, Calif., use TouchSmart PCs to accelerate learning, participate in group activities, and unlock their ability to communicate. Hope Technology School (HTS) wanted to provide an enriching and productive learning experience for children with special needs. Hope Technology School (HTS) deployed HP TouchSmart PC. As a result students provided successful solution to keyboard obstacles and built-in tools include microphone and webcam.
172 days ago by Hewlett-Packard (HP)Experiences of Supporting Local and Remote Mobile Phone Interaction With Touchscreen Based Situated Displays
The use of mobile phones appears to provide a range of opportunities for supporting interaction with public displays. Furthermore, such interaction can help overcome some of the problems associated with interactions with public displays, e.g. the potential inability of users interact with a touch screen display because of its physical placement (e.g. inappropriate height for a wheelchair user), supporting multi-user interaction and as a means for enabling user content to be transferred to a public display. This paper discusses the explorations of some of these issues and present design guidelines as a result.
279 days ago by Lancaster UniversityDigitizer Drivers for Windows Touch and Pen-Based Computers
This paper provides information about digitizer drivers for Windows Touch and pen-based computers for the Windows family of operating systems. Windows Touch is the name for the touch and multitouch capabilities that are built into the Windows 7 platform. The paper also describes how Window 7 interfaces with digitizer drivers for Human Interface Devices (HID) and includes guidelines for driver writers. This information applies for the Windows 7 operating system.
371 days ago by Microsoftnoax Industrial PCs: Lean and Reliable Production Data Management in Textile Finishing
The historic town of Bamberg in Franconia has been the home of Bamberger Kaliko GmbH for over 135 years. To this day, Kaliko is an expert in combining tradition and progress. The site in the industrial area of Bamberg-Kramersfeld was built in 1988 and is equipped with state of the art machinery. They needed comprehensive production data acquisition for production, operation as a low maintenance and Thin Client solution. The challenge was to implement legal conditions for batch traceability and high degree of reliability of the industrial PCs. Bamberger Kaliko deployed noax Industrial PCs for their solution.
465 days ago by noax TechnologiesMore Transparency in Meat Processing With 19?in.? Stainless Steel Industrial PCs
The Nolke Group is made up of the two divisions Heinrich Nolke and Frischdienst Union, who, with strong brands like Gutfried and Menzefricke, are constantly developing their market position in retail, butcher and meat stores and bulk consumers. The company needed operational data collection in foodstuff production of food-stuffs incl. traceability and order-based production and packaging with top speed and efficiency. The company deployed noax IPCs which has been supporting employees at the Heinrich Nolke GmbH & Co. KG. plant in Versmold with reliable operational data collection and efficient planning and production under perfectly hygienic conditions since 1997.
487 days ago by noax TechnologiesForklift Terminals for Prompt and Paperless Recording of All Stock Movements
Erdinger WeiÃÂbrau was founded in 1886. It has been the property of the Brombach family since 1935. With an annual output of 1.45 hectoliters of beer, the company, run by Werner Brombach since 1975, is one of the largest private breweries in Germany. The company needed paperless stock and warehouse management, implementation of the regulatory requirements for traceability, higher efficiency and speed in warehouse logistics and increase in delivery quality and timeliness. Erdinger WeiÃÂbrau deployed noax industrial PCs for their solution. Since 2007, noax industrial PCs have been assisting the warehouse logistics of the traditional company.
489 days ago by noax Technologies
