The NOAA SOS Public Kiosk (“Public Kiosk”) software initially debuted with the
SOS 5.0 release. It provides a touch screen controller intended for a general
public audience to interact with a Science On a Sphere® (SOS) exhibit when there
is no docent present. It has some similarities with other third party kiosks
created in the past for SOS, such as the Bishop Museum’s kiosk. The motivation
for building the Public Kiosk was to provide a flexible and easy-to-administer
public controller that can be localized to native languages by using standard
SOS playlists.
The Public Kiosk is fully supported by its NOAA software developers and is
included as part of the normal SOS customer support. Suggestions for new
features and submissions of bug reports is highly encouraged to keep improving
the Public Kiosk into the future, so please email
sos.support@noaa.gov.