We introduced two 'Quick Use' PCs in a new library building last autumn, where the user has to stand up, although the access is not restricted.
My main comment would be to be very careful in the type of furniture you use. We bought two stands which turned out to wobble if you leant on the front where the keyboard sits! As you can imagine they did not stay very long. Many people found the stands slightly too low and staff commented that they frequently saw people dragging chairs over to sit down at the PCs. Having said that, the Quick Use PCs are as well used as the ordinary PCs in the building and the average session length seems to be about 20 minutes, as opposed to 40 minutes for the other adult PCs.
Regards,
Kirsty
Kirsty Robinson
People's Network Development Manager
Hampshire Library and Information Service
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Sent: 07 January 2005 16:45
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Subject: 'Standing' PC's
We're considering introducing 'Standing PC's' (that is, a stand-alone pc
with no seating - and therefore a 'small footprint') in some of our
branches. The idea is that people can quickly check email or access a
council service, once done we hope that the machine would then be freed for
use by someone else. Anyone wanting to do research, use 'Office'
applications or generally surf the web would be catered for by using a
workstation with seating.
Does any one use this type of Stand Up PC access? What proportion of the PC
services is offered by Stand Up? Is it popular? What are the user stats in
relation to those of a fully-fledged workstation? Any comments are welcome.
Regards
Rob Bleakley
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