Interactive touchscreen billboard !

Waiting, waiting and more waiting. This is a reality for many people in the Netherlands who travel by public transportation. They arrive either too early or their transportation arrives too late. These few minutes are often experienced as boring. A second (general) problem that occurs is that it is getting more difficult for companies to attract consumers’ attention to advertisements and the products or services they are selling.

Therefore we, me and the other groupmembers for the course User Interface Design, designed an interactive touchscreen billboard that will be placed at train stations to improve the fun level of waiting. In addition, it will increase the attractiveness of advertisements for both business people and students. Advertisements can be personalized and users are able to connect with the advertisements by using their mobile phone.

Below you can find a short introduction of the interactive touchscreen billboard, named BeTouchi !

Pink elephants, green dragons & deceptive children

About pink elephants and green dragons: Children's awareness of being deceptive

This is an interview with prof. dr. Marc Swerts, a researcher and academic teacher at the University of Tilburg.

The interview includes his research to children's awareness of being deceptive, based on a digital puppet-show where children have to communicate with a prince and a (green) dragon.

Furthermore, dr. Swerts discusses the pink elephant phenomenon, theory of mind, detecting lies as a parent, differences in lying adults and children, non-verbal communication, Paul Ekman and the truth behind the tv-show 'Lie To Me'.

The interview is recorded and edited by group 24 of the course Business Information Technology.