Produced full HLF grant application for, designed and installed...
Touchscreen Interactives
Touchscreen Interactives
More than just a digital information point:
We offer your visitors a richly-detailed interactive experience with 3D tours and media features.
Over 100 pages of carefully-researched information, enhanced with image, video and audio galleries, and our immersive 360° panoramic tours to explore in close-up any location or environment you want to showcase. All this, from a fully customised touchscreen interface.
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Interactive Maps
Detailed maps and aerial photographs with on-screen zoom and move functions, for visitors to explore your site or area in detail, with multiple layers showing the area at different points in history.
Detailed maps and aerial photographs with on-screen zoom and move functions, for visitors to explore your site or area in detail, with multiple layers showing the area at different points in history.
Maps can be enhanced with hot-spots for visitors to tap for additional information, or used in interactive puzzles and surveys. If you do not already have maps or photography, Freeline can source high resolution current/historical maps for you.
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360° Panoramas
Interactive 3D experiences allowing visitors to explore a building or landscape, enhanced with 'hot-spots' the visitor can tap for pop-up info, pictures or videos.
Interactive 3D experiences allowing visitors to explore a building or landscape, enhanced with 'hot-spots' the visitor can tap for pop-up info, pictures or videos.
Multiple graphic layers can be switched on and off, to let visitors see how the site looked before/after specific dates or events. Freeline can work with you to reconstruct 3D visuals to show visitors what your site would have looked like in days gone by.
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Engagement: Touchscreen surveys
Automatically gather visitor feedback, demographic information and contact details into Excel charts and graphs.
Automatically gather visitor feedback, demographic information and contact details into Excel charts and graphs.
We work with you to ensure the data you gather is meaningful and properly formatted. Incentivised touchscreen surveys are easy and fun for visitors to complete, and can garner much higher responses than conventional feedback forms or street surveys.
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Embed a digital video, with sound, on any page for visitors to watch.
If you don't have a digital video, we can convert VHS tapes, DVDs, or even help you film your own. Visit our video pages to find out more.
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Customised Interface
We work with you to design a fully bespoke layout, fonts, colours and background images.
We work with you to design a fully bespoke layout, fonts, colours and background images.
A full design consultation will be held with you to produce customised artwork. We can adapt your organisation's existing livery or branding, or begin a design from scratch based on the content you wish to deliver.
Case Studies
Projects where Freeline has delivered this sort of work.
Tuckers Hall, Exeter
Client:
Incorporation of Weavers
Sector:
Culture & Heritage, Education
Client:
Incorporation of Weavers
Location:
Exeter
Sector:
Budget:
£105,000
Brief:
Produced full HLF grant application for, designed and installed multi-storey interpretation centre on the history of the cloth trade for Exeter's Guild of Weavers, Fullers and Shearsmen. The interpretation centre was built as part of a building overhaul of Tuckers Hall, an historic building in the city. Exhibits included 10,000 words of copy on interpretation panels, display cabinets and a touchscreen interactive filled with videos, interactive maps, 360° panorama tours and a digitised record of hundreds of years of the Guild's minutes in a digital bookcase. The project including the recruitment and training of a group of volunteers to research, digitise and transcribe the historic records. Freeline also created a content managed website for the guild with member, event and email management system to allow members to view each others' profiles and receive regular email bulletins about guild events: www.tuckershall.org.uk Download PDF
Work done:
NCI Torbay
Client:
National Coastwatch Institute
Sector:
Wildlife
Design and installation of visitor centre including multiple...
Client:
National Coastwatch Institute
Location:
Torbay
Sector:
Budget:
£55,000
Brief:
Design and installation of visitor centre including multiple interpretation panels and deep-level touchscreen interactive. The interactive includes arcade games, 360° panorama tours of the function of shipping watchtowers, maritime navigation maps, aerial photography of the local coastline and town, wildlife and geology information, and local walking trails.
Work done:
St Stephens, Exeter
Client:
Parish of Central Exeter
Sector:
Church, Culture & Heritage
As part of a £1.5 million church restoration, we were...
Client:
Parish of Central Exeter
Location:
High Street Exeter
Sector:
Budget:
£26,000
Brief:
As part of a £1.5 million church restoration, we were commissioned to design and produce a set of panels and a historical computer touchscreen for the Heritage centre within the newly refurbished community church, this included coordinating historical research by six groups of volunteers over a three-month period. Training and support was given as the volunteers searched local records for information which was then professionally translated by our editor Todd Gray, into text suitable for a series of leaflets, a study pack for school children, a number of static information panels, and an interactive touchscreen unit. Download PDF
Work done:
Greater Horseshoe Bats
Client:
Greater Horseshoe Bat Project
Sector:
Education, Wildlife
Micro visitor-centre installations and transportable touchscreen...
Client:
Greater Horseshoe Bat Project
Location:
Multiple sites around Devon
Budget:
£750,000
Brief:
Micro visitor-centre installations and transportable touchscreen interactives installed at The Donkey Sanctuary, Berry Head, and other beacon sites around Devon. Developed for a consortium of wildlife charities, the exhibition spaces comprised interpretation panels and a deep-level touchscreen interactive filled with wildlife information, audio, infra-red video, interactive maps and video arcade games.
Work done:
Colyton Heritage Centre
Client:
Colyton Parish History Society
Sector:
Culture & Heritage
Installation of a top-end document digitising suite to scan and...
Client:
Colyton Parish History Society
Location:
Colyton
Sector:
Budget:
£60,000
Brief:
Installation of a top-end document digitising suite to scan and secure the Colyton Foeffees’ Archive of over 30,000 parish records. This Heritage Lottery Funded project involved the recruitment and training of research volunteers, and the development of original artwork to showcase the history of the parish through graphic panels and a deep-learning touchscreen interactive in the Merchant's House Heritage Centre.
Work done:
St Andrew's Church
Client:
Diocese of Exeter
Sector:
Church
A fully-featured touchscreen interactive installed with videos,...
Client:
Diocese of Exeter
Location:
Cullompton
Sector:
Budget:
£11,000
Brief:
A fully-featured touchscreen interactive installed with videos, drone footage, aerial maps, and a 3D virtual tour allowing visitors to switch between the appearance of the church building now, and as it was hundreds of years ago.
Work done:
Exeter Custom House
Client:
ECC and Exeter Canal Trust
Sector:
Culture & Heritage
Design and installation of a local history exhibition display,...
Client:
ECC and Exeter Canal Trust
Location:
Custom House, Exeter
Sector:
Budget:
£30,000
Brief:
Design and installation of a local history exhibition display, as part of the relocation of Exeter's Tourist Information Centre to the quayside Custom House. This included multiple fabric-printed interpretation panels on bespoke wooden A-frame mounts, graphic wall-panels, walk-through exhibition spaces and the installation of an interactive touchscreen questionnaire, to gather visitor feedback and demographic information to inform future development of the city's heritage and tourism provision.
Work done:
Bideford Railway Centre
Client:
Bideford Railway Heritage Group
Sector:
Culture & Heritage, Education
Design and installation of a visitor centre including multiple...
Client:
Bideford Railway Heritage Group
Location:
Bideford
Sector:
Budget:
£60,000
Brief:
Design and installation of a visitor centre including multiple interpretation panels and deep-level touchscreen interactive. The interactive includes: puzzle games, 360° panorama tours of a functioning signal box, a diesel and a steam locomotive cab, historical rail films and image galleries. Photography, video production, illustration and artwork.
Work done:
Tiverton Canal Centre
Client:
Devon County Council
Sector:
Culture & Heritage, Wildlife
Complete visitor centre installation, including 10m of curved...
Client:
Devon County Council
Location:
Grand Western Canal, Tiverton
Sector:
Budget:
£40,000
Brief:
Complete visitor centre installation, including 10m of curved interpretation wall panels, design and production of four low-tech interactives - rotating puzzles, 'what the butler saw' viewing consoles, a large-format board game mounted on a horse-drawn flatbed trailer - as well as life-size model animals. A large body of multimedia resources were curated to a form the basis of a touchscreen interactive, which included puzzle games, wildlife profiles and video, an image gallery and an interactive map . This map incorporated 360° 3D panoramas from the entire 10 mile length of the canal. Download PDF
Work done:
St John's, Church, Totnes
Client:
St Mary's & St John's Churches
Sector:
Church, Culture & Heritage
Installation of a touchscreen featuring St John's church...
Client:
St Mary's & St John's Churches
Location:
Totnes
Sector:
Budget:
£25,000
Brief:
Installation of a touchscreen featuring St John's church Bridgetown, its heritage and the fabric of the building. The touchscreen illustrates the rich cultural, architectural, religious, historical and community heritage of Totnes. As well as text and images the touchscreen delivers 'virtual tours' - 360 degree panoramas where the viewer can move around a virtual space and zoom in and out to pick out the smallest detail. Each panorama is programmed with a range of multimedia information hotspots. A brochure was produced to compliment the touchscreen which includes summary detail of all the main subjects outlined.
Work done:
Whalesborough Cafe
Client:
Whalesborough
Sector:
Education, Wildlife
Design and installation of a complete wildlife interpretation...
Client:
Whalesborough
Location:
North Devon
Budget:
£350,000
Brief:
Design and installation of a complete wildlife interpretation centre within the centre's tea rooms, as part of a rural development grant. The exhibition space comprised a matched pair of interactive touchscreens - one mounted in a coffee table, and low tech non-digital interactives including a tabletop magnetic quiz game, and a set of large-format photo-printed building cube puzzle. Curved graphic interpretation wall-panels of wildlife information were installed throughout the space. Download PDF
Avon Heath, Dorset
Client:
Dorset County Council
Sector:
Wildlife
Design, authoring and installation of an interactive computer...
Client:
Dorset County Council
Location:
Avon Heath, New Forest
Sector:
Budget:
£24,000
Brief:
Design, authoring and installation of an interactive computer suite including 46” touchscreen table, and a set of 28 interpretation panels for Dorset County Council’s Ranger Service heath land discovery Centre. Interpretation copy and touchscreen content covered all aspects of the wildlife and management of the nature reserve, and included multiple custom-built puzzles and games for young visitors as well as wildlife profiles, video and image galleries and nature trail information. Download PDF
Culm Valley Cloth Trade
Client:
Cullompton Town Council
Sector:
Culture & Heritage, Industry
Touchscreen interactives detailing the story of the local Cloth...
Client:
Cullompton Town Council
Location:
Cullompton
Sector:
Budget:
£60,000
Brief:
Touchscreen interactives detailing the story of the local Cloth Trade, installed in four locations in Cullompton & the Culm Valley. Each site advertises the other three, and has interactive panoramas and films. Content included multiple interactive maps of the local area, 360° tours of every site, and new video content of working machinery and dramatic reconstructions of life in Coldharbour Mill.
Work done:
Devon Wildlife Trust HQ
Client:
Devon Wildlife Trust
Sector:
Industry, Wildlife
DWT invited us to tender for the design, production and install...
Client:
Devon Wildlife Trust
Location:
Cricklepit Mill, Exeter
Budget:
£29,000
Brief:
DWT invited us to tender for the design, production and install of the visitor centre in their new headquarters at Cricklepit Mill, this included researching the history of the Mill, producing a range of bespoke wooden interactives and authoring an extensive computer interactive. Download PDF
