Workshop B: W3-Based Online Kiosk Systems

Half-day workshop on Monday, April 10, 1995
9.30 am - 1.00 pm

Room: 48/051

The emphasis in the workshop is on the concept of "online." The goal is to discuss experiences with W3-kiosks that access remote data.

The World Wide Web (W3) is a fast growing information processing, browsing and retrieval tool, that runs on a wide variety of computer types. Up to now, it has been accessed primarily from office-, lab- or home-computers. But the simple yet powerful concepts of the W3 could also be used to build publicly accessible terminals (kiosks) that allow end-users online access to the W3.

This (half-day) workshop offers participants of the Third International World Wide Web Conference with W3-kiosk experience a possibility to meet and hold discussion on technical and organizational aspects of the introduction and maintenance of online kiosks based on the W3. The emphasis in the workshop is on the concept of "online." The goal is to discuss experiences with W3-kiosks that access remote data.

Schedule of Workshop B

9.30 - 10.15: Getting It Across: Layout Issues For Kiosk Systems

Speakers: Jan Borchers, Oliver Deussen, Clemens Knörzer
This is a basic thing for Kiosks, so I think they should have more time.

10.15-10.20: A W3 Online Kiosk for Admission Purposes
Cambridge's Public Information Project

Speaker: Louis Perrochon
These people can not attend. I'll try to summarize the important points of their projects.

10.20-10.40: Building a W3-Kiosk with Existing Products

Speaker: Marco M. Büchel

10.40-11.00: Kiosks in a Library

Speaker: Paul Nieuwenhuysen

11.00-11.30: Break:

The break is rather lengthy. I don't know if we get coffee or so. If the discussion is already quite hot, we may shorten the break. However, with some 50 participants, a longer break might give everybody more opportunity to share thoughts.

11.30-12.00: Kiosks from Digital Equipment Corporation

Speaker: Viktor Rosenquist
This speaker is not yet on my list of participants, but I have strong believe he will show up.

12.00-12.30: The Moonsaic Browser for Kiosks on the WWW. A method for specifying Layout for HTML Documents.

Speaker: Brian G. Anderson, Hans Joseph

12.30-12.40: MultiMedia WWW PC. How to distribute interactive applications on the Internet

Speaker: Marco M. Büchel
Another author that can not attend. Marco will try to present MMWWWPC the best he can.

12.40-13.00 Discussion