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Getting it across: layout issues for kiosk systems

Published: 01 October 1995 Publication History

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A clear and appealing screen layout is crucial to the success of on-line kiosk systems, public terminals that are connected to a network. This paper addresses the problem of developing such a layout, and provides several guidelines, drawn from traditional typography and Gestalt psychology as well as from hypertext authoring, and human-computer interaction. To identify how a kiosk system's primary task influences optimal layout, kiosk systems are classified into four basic types. The usability of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) 2.0 and 3.0 to write documents for these systems is discussed, and some alternative existing environments are presented.

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cover image ACM SIGCHI Bulletin
ACM SIGCHI Bulletin  Volume 27, Issue 4
Oct. 1995
80 pages
ISSN:0736-6906
DOI:10.1145/214132
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Published: 01 October 1995
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