The National Trust uses Touch Screen and Kiosk Technology to Deliver Virtual Tours

March 8, 2010 - PRLog -- The Customer

The National Trust is an independent charity with 3.5 million members and 52,000 volunteers. More than 12 million people visit their pay for entry properties, while an estimated 50 million visit the open air properties. They protect and open to the public over 300 historic houses and gardens and 49 industrial monuments and mills.

The Challenge

The National Trust had been working on a project to develop a consistent approach to the provision of virtual tours in their properties. The project was in response to continuing aims to find new ways of interpreting properties for visitors, with the emphasis on good design, variety of content, accessibility and usability, both of the tour software and the equipment.
Dicoll were asked to propose a range of kiosk and touch screen solutions that would be used by Trust properties to deliver the virtual tours.

The Solution

Together with Corvidae Ltd, an exhibition and interactive production company appointed by the National Trust to provide the virtual tours, Dicoll developed a range of touch screen and kiosk solutions to fit the exacting requirements of the National Trust.

The Result

Dicoll continue to work with The National Trust and Corvidae to supply desktop, wall mount and floor standing virtual tour touchscreen and kiosk solutions across the UK, with around 40 sites now operational.

“We have a huge variety of properties that want to use the virtual tour interpretation. It was important to us to find a company that could provide a range of solutions so that there was something appropriate for as many properties as possible and for visitors. It was also important to find a company that could respond quickly and easily to any changes in requirements. The robust technology, variety of solutions and complete supply and support service is so far proving a good match to our requirements.” Heather Smith, Head of Access for All, The National Trust

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Dicoll has an unsurpassed reputation in the market place for producing and supplying a range of reliable high quality kiosks and LCD touch screen solutions.