| 摘要 |
An information dissemination and display system with archive for target groups (IDDS) enables simplex communication i. e. users to receive information intended for communicating to the group of users who may or may not use computers or touch screen notice boards normally. It enables accessing (read only) information for the users who may or may not use conventional interfaces via the Internet. The administrators of the IDDS can post notices including text, images, audio, and video to the system and the users would be largely receiving information except feeding only their identification code/feedback with respect to the purpose. The target community can be members of staff or students of an institution, bank clients, travellers on the air ports, railway passengers, visitors to the hospitals, government/private offices and court premises and the likes. The notices may also include usage short forms and symbols that may allow users to relate to the notices faster than reading words. The IDDS may be useful to people with limited computer knowledge, access and literacy. In addition some features are optionally added for hearing, visually and other handicapped persons. The audio and video files may be played on the notice board for the purposes of clarity and to remove the need and requirement to read the notices. Text or short messaging service may be optionally used for the mobile phone users along with email alerts. The users may access the information posted on IDDS from computers, mobile phones, and net cafes by optionally using their user-ids only. The notice board optionally coupled with the database which will show all current notices for the pre-decided period such as one week or month and also archive all current as well as past notices for a number of years which is pre-decided by the system. Old notices can be accessed any time from the archive without raising any query or search through the target group user centric nested filing system and touch/click buttons. |
