Overview    Press & Video     Screen Shots     Specifications     Plan     History     Team          Neil and Kevin  review the kiosks'  enclosures.     Manfred has enough  cable to circle the  planet - twice.     One of the first  locations was the  Maritime museum.  Ready for launch  at Keyosk Corp.

Project Keyosk History Project Keyosk was launched when Richard Tagawa of Pearl Harbor Travel contracted with Alysis Interactive Corporation to design and develop the computer software and hardware to power an Internet kiosk.  Mr. Tagawa had a Macromedia Director prototype and a short list of requirements.  There would be many visits to Hawaii required, but we felt that we could handle this.  We put together a design and development plan and set to work.                  Richard Tagawa, Keyosk Corporation President    By the end of the third week, we had built the necessary ActiveX controls, Web page templates, and VBScript code snippets to prototype the system.  We evaluated modems and CPUs for use in the kiosks.  We talked with a potential videographer about providing video sequences to present some of the kiosk's offerings.  By the seventh week, we had established a prototype of the wide area network that would connect the kiosks to a central reservation office.  We selected a server-side database and scripting system for managing the kiosk transactions.  We found a source of stock video appropriate to the kiosk offerings and specified a video production schedule.   We optimized video display performance and finalized selection of a touch-screen display.  During the third month, the Alysis team was in full-swing page production.  We produced hundreds of Web pages and thousands of lines of code to make the pages fully interactive.  We integrated a credit-card reader which captured both credit card numbers and the names of customers for rapid transaction processing.  We collaborated with the videographer to create our first finished MPEG video.  By the end of the month, the complete kiosk system was in alpha testing, with all hardware components selected and integrated.  We switched to full-time testing in preparation for launch in the fourth month and verified that the content was solid.  We added error-handling  code based on test results.  We abused the hardware to the point of failure and then added more error-handling code.  We met with Keysok Corporation to set a launch date.  In November 1997, we put the first kiosks on the street.  Many sleepless nights, trans-oceanic file transfers, and hours of customer-watching ironed out the bugs in the system.  We trained Keyosk employees and demonstrated the kiosks to the press and location staff.  The project was successfully launched.