Public Kiosk Manual

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.

The Public Kiosk software runs on a PC running Microsoft Windows. Details about the system can be found in the Equipment List.

You can download the latest version of the SOS Public Kiosk from this Download Link. Please see our latest release notes located on the Release Notes page.