Need suggestions for touch-screen data collection system

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 02:51:42PM -0500, Steve Wiltsie wrote:
> > My snap answer, if it's practical, would be to give everyone a
> > barcoded badge, and print job number barcodes on the traveler tickets
> > (if you have such), and have them scan their badge and the traveler.
> > You could, I suppose, put a chart with department barcodes on the
> > wall by the scanner (or chained to it, if it was portable.
> > Would an approach like that collect enough data for your situation?
> > You can get completely untethered RF scanners cheap these days.
> 
> Thanks but we've already tried a similar approach with barcoded plant
> paperwork and individual readers.  It didn't work in this setting.  It was a
> combination of using the cheapest hardware and employees who didn't want it
> to work.  The management thinks this will be a better approach because there
> will be a card for each employee and a card for each item.  The rest will be
> entered on the touch screen.

My snap answer to *that* is "if you can't make the employees want it to
work, you *can't make it work*."

You Just Can't.

Best of luck.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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