Top 5 Large Touch Screen Monitors for Conference Rooms
The world of large-format, interactive displays can be overwhelming. Here’s a quick run-through.
Searching for the best and brightest large touch screen monitor for your office? Sounds like someone got an increase in their A/V budget.
We’re not surprised, seeing as employee experience and self-service tech is a hot topic these days, with a 2017 Deloitte study stating that almost 80 percent of executives believe it’s important to very important. One way to improve employee experience is with transparency and visibility. Large-format touch screen displays showing interactive office maps in your lobby, kitchen, and elevator bay, for example, accomplish just that.
There are obvious benefits that come from investing in office digital signage: improved wayfinding, increased visibility, simple conference room check-in, etc. But companies who take initiative to invest aren't just spending to spend. They're making a statement to the entire organization that they're investing in improving the quality of employees day-to-day. They're investing in workplace.
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Large touch screen display features to look for:
For the best-case scenario when employees interact with a large format touch screen display in your office, we recommend looking for these qualities to make for a quick, easy and accurate experience.
• Multi-touch vs single-touch: if you’re looking to use software that has zoom capabilities (like Robin interactive maps), you want to look for multi-touch displays. These could also be good for large-format displays where multiple people may be trying to click around, or if the software has any added multi-touch functionality (similar to Apple’s trackpad two-finger scroll or page flip motions).
• 5-wire resistive or infrared touch screens: Between the two, they cover the best circumstances for touch screen technology from transmissivity, type of object able to be used (stylus vs. finger), and more.There are technically five different types of touch screen technology, which you can read more about here.
What are the best large-format touch screen displays?
We made a quick list of five the best touch screen options for your office lobbies and elevator bays. At Robin, we’ve tried out both Chromebase and Elo touch screen displays, both being solid options as they’re relatively easy to mount and setup. We also pulled some favorites from across the web.
1. Chromebase
Cons: Size options are limited (22”, 24”), some have single-touch only
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2. Elo
Cons: Display only. Need to purchase an Elo computer module separately, or plug it into a PC or content management system.
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3. Leyard & Planar
Pros: Many format and size options, from seamless to matrixed video walls to simple large format touch screen displays. Includes infrared and multi-touch options.
Cons: They seem to be expensive (but, you get what you pay for, if you’re looking for a 70” display or an entire wall)
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4. LG
Cons: Display only, have to connect content management via separate module or laptop, 10 point touch (others have more)
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5. ViewSonic
Cons: We haven’t found examples of cons yet, but we’ll keep you posted
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What if I already have a ton of traditional TVs for our office?
You’re in luck. A fair amount of the larger format touch screen technology we’ve seen works with a standard TV. Seems like the industry recognizes it’s worth reusing a standard TV and simply making it touch-enabled with an overlay “frame” of sorts. Here are a ton of size options for infrared, multi-touch overlays from OPTIR via Tyco Touch.
Where should these touch screens live?
An ideal office scenario would be to have a large-format touch screen monitor in your lobby and on each floor in the elevator bay or kitchen areas. These are often the highest-trafficked collision points in an office and therefore the places where employees would greatly benefit from seeing an interactive map and schedule of the workplace.
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As your company grows, you’ll want to keep up the pace of strong internal communications and visibility. Large-format displays, especially touch screen ones, help you accomplish this objective really easily.
From wayfinding and conference room booking to internal communications of all types, having touch screens in high-traffic locations will make you look like the office admin superstar you really are. You could welcome new hires, tell everyone about a new product, or roll out a brand new software tool (like Robin) via these screens.
Make sure you have the right stakeholders and resources to keep the screens up-to-date, and then watch as the employee experience surveys improve.
