Central Washington University installs a touch video wall to share the history of its faculty

ABS has installed a 2×2 built with 46” Planar Clarity Maxtrix LCD screens showing who have been the people who have contributed to promoting the educational quality of Central Washington University.

The video and audio systems integrator Advanced Broadcast Solutions (ABS) has installed a video wall on the Central Washington University campus (DHW), a public university located in Ellensburg that is part of this educational center. This interactive panel with touch screen will serve to offer information, with photos and video clips, of the different teachers who have passed through this educational center throughout its history.

Until now, the faculty had on one of its walls more than a hundred photos of the most distinguished educators who had passed through the center., but they were looking for a solution that was more dynamic, that would allow them to include a presentation video. “This huge amount of photos we had ran the risk “The history of a university is very rich, with a lot of information. All this huge amount of photos could have been stored in files and, in the end, They would have forgotten all these people who were here practicing their profession. “With the video wall that we have installed we prevent this from happening”, explains Olga Mayer , digital artist at CWU.

The video wall of 2×2, placed on a wall decorated with an image of the exterior that covers the entire wall, It is built using LCD screens 46 inch Clarity Maxtrix Planar. It has six points of contact to offer its tactile capabilities, as well as a control system that emulates the iPad interface. “The great challenge we faced was how to fit such an innovative system into an environment as traditional as that of the university”, Mayer comments..

Installing the screen was hassle-free.. A little more complicated was feeding it with content and presenting the video since the compilation of this information is being carried out by the CWU.

One of the most attractive parts that this panel offers are the interactive conferences given by the professors., as well as the events and musical performances that are being included.”Everyone is liking the project. When the new students tour the campus they will be able to learn about the people who have contributed to the educational quality of the center.”, dice Mayer.

Although obtaining information, photos, and video clips of current teachers is relatively easy , The information of retired teachers must be recovered from the archives and digitized. Some profiles will be published this course but, Creating the entire presentation will take several months.