The touchscreen is playing a vital role in most companies nowadays. Many companies own the self-touch screen models and many rent them at some events.
Renting a touchscreen for your office events is sometimes cost-effective.
Let’s understand the different types of touchscreen models and their usage.
Generally, there are 3 types of touchscreen models:
- Touch Screen PC’s such as IPad, tablets, or laptops
- Touch Screen Kiosks
- Touchscreen Smartphones
Touchscreen PC’s
Computer models with LCD touch screens come in different formats in the market. The most popular are laptops and the iPad. These are small in size and do not require a mouse, external keyboard, and stylus to operate.
These devices use wireless internet connections and they can be connected to any external device easily. These devices are meant to use at different events for the following purposes:
- Registering attendees
- Placing handouts and binders on the iPad
- Attendees can save important notes
- Can do PowerPoint presentations for important business meetings
- Doing surveys on the spot
- Last-minute changes or announcements during the meetings
Touch Panel Kiosks
Touch panel kiosks are large and floor-standing devices. They are generally used to display public and non-personal information where there is not much interaction with the public.
Kiosks are the best know for their colorful and video messages as in advertisement banners.
Kiosks basic use in the events or meeting industry are:
- Presentations
- Digital signage
- Speaker profiles
- Sponsorships or advertisements
- Product launching events
- Self-check-in for a conference
Touchscreen kiosks attract users by their simple functionality and branding features.
Touchscreen Smartphones
Smartphones such as Andriod phones or iPhones are the most popular in the market today. If you are expecting an event based on smartphones only then everyone at your event should carry a smartphone.
The biggest challenge even hosts face is to run the same application on different smartphones across various manufacturers. Assuming that every user at your event has a smartphone some of the things that can be done on the spot are:
- Email broadcasts to attendees
- Doing Surveys
- Downloading important doc like pdf or hangouts
- Taking notes
- Collecting contact information
All in one
Smartphones or touchscreen models are the best devices to carry or rent whenever hosting an event for your company. They help you in many ways. Like downloading attachments to copying notes, or collecting attendees’ information.