Font sizes for kiosk applications?

hi,
I'm currently making an interactive for a kiosk. I'm
wondering if anyone knows of any good resources, rules of thumb or
research on choosing a good font size for that type of situation
where the hardware spec is fixed.
TIA,
John

John,
The Kiosk Podcast episode is up....you can go directly to our
webpage to
listen to it or listen to it in Itunes. Here is a link to the
show:
http://www.magicgate.com/podcast/kiosk/
The section you are looking for is the "Kiosk Resource Of The
Week"
Hope this helps!
SKIP
"j_f" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:e2o0vm$la2$[email protected]:
> Thanks Skip,
>
> I look forward to hearing that when it becomes
available. In the meantime I've
> found this paper from Loughborough University in the UK
saying that 16pt is the
> minimum which should be considered. Seems a bit vague as
it doesn't mention
> screen resolution.
>
> Thanks again,
> John
>
>
http://ui4all.ics.forth.gr/UI4ALL-97/maguire.pdf

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