Video Switcher Interface
September 18, 2008
At Asbury Theological Seminary I was asked to setup a system that would connect a professor on the Kentucky campus with a classroom of students in the Florida campus, without a technical operator. To accomplish the task I was presented with an Extron switcher and a couple of Sony robotic cameras. To make interaction with the interface easier we added a touch screen monitor, allowing the professor to avoid the slowdown of typical mouse interaction. In consideration of that, and along with the fact that everyone’s finger is a different size, I designed the buttons to be larger and more spread apart than they normally would be on a website.
My goal was to represent each input with a vectorized image of the device. As the user clicks on one of the input options at the top, the screen changes to present them with a set of icons indicating how they can interact with that particular input device.
The DVD/VCR combo, for example, gives them the option to entirely control the normal interaction of the device from the screen, taking the remote out of the equation.
