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- Cybcerone is the result of an interactive kiosk project
- for the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
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- The services Cybcerone provides were originally intended
- to assist visitors on the University campus. These services
- can be accessed by means of kiosks equipped with
- touchscreens (without keyboard or mouse) and a modified
- Web browser (HotJava), designed for people who are not
- accustomed to using a computer. These kiosks are connected
- to the University's network.
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- In order to make the system as easy to use and
- entertaining as possible to the general public, an
- intensely graphical and interactive interface was selected.
- Each night at 4 a.m. the kiosk is reinitialized so that the
- user does not have to wait for images or data to load the
- following day. The initialization process is, therefore,
- quite lengthy.
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- The Cybcerone system as it stands now is an Intranet
- application available to the public via kiosks in selected
- areas. However, we are planning to extend Cybcerone from
- the public kiosk to the desktop Web browser in the near
- future. The new, desktop version of Cybcerone will of
- course be light and fast enough to run on the widest
- variety of systems.
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- This project has been developed for a French-speaking
- public. Consequently, the applet interface is in French.
- However, the applet provides all necessary information in
- English on the status bar.
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