The paperclip mindset

Life is complicated, so why make things harder for ourselves? The greatest inventions in history are always the most simplistic and they always solve a problem. Modern digital solutions should, as the word alludes to, be solutions to problems - not just tech looking for a solution...but are they?
Digital should augment our everyday tasks and make all of our lives easier - not harder!

Instead of adding complication, we need more paperclips - simple, inexpensive and very useful!

Introducing Remote Control Digital

RCD is dedicated to developing and bringing to market cost-effective innovation. Our aim is to harness technology to solve real problems, turning complication into simplicity.

By understanding our increasingly time-starved audiences and giving them exactly what they want and need without making unnecessary demands on their time. Using technology to improve engagement, learning and ultimately, lives.

We are always looking at what is coming over the horizon and harness emerging technologies in the development of our web apps and as a result, we have developed a revolutionary process to streamline production time and cost. This, we believe is what makes us unique - we actively have sought out ways to speed up production with no degradation of quality, in order to make innovative digital affordable, quick to produce and easy to use. We believe in democratisation of innovation.

We also believe in sustainability. Our apps have been created to solve many ecological issues such as the disposal of "use-once" printed materials. We design our apps to be updateable and encourage reuse, which also ensures a higher return on investment for our customers. All of our apps *can be used remotely for live events including exhibition booths, kiosks or event apps. This is because, after almost 30 years of live event experience, we have developed apps that are simple to install and run, requiring minimal maintenance onsite. *For peace of mind, we do provide technicians on request.

RCD Products

The following are the first five apps RCD are bringing to market. Each has pedigree from being used extensively by large and small client companies. We continually listen and reacted to feedback to ensure our products meet and exceed expectations and instil confidence.
More are to follow in the near future...

01

Panl

Panl was developed to make engagement with digital posters a better experience. Whether a poster is printed and includes a QR code, or the poster is on a screen. Panl makes both a better all round experience for end-users.

How? Panl makes viewing content clear and obvious for users, and searching for key information a very simple task. Panl provides intuitive navigation in a few easy to understand ways - from simple forward and backward buttons, pop-out table of contents and powerful search with deep linking, it is very straightforward for users to find what they are looking for.

Panl is all about deeper engagement. It has many interactive features that both engage, immerse but also capture highly valuable insights from users, above and beyond the standard user metrics. Panl encourages users to share insights through live polling, Q&A and sentiment gathering. Panl includes an analytics dashboard page for admins to track engagement impact and user insights for greater ROI.

Panl also has a wealth of rich engagement features (see below) that turn viewing a poster panel from a pain into a pleasure!

Key features:

  • Responsive scaling on any device/browser - the same app can be used on a mobile, a tablet or on a large booth touchscreen
  • Simple and intuitive navigation
  • Dynamically generated table of contents and poster/panel preview
  • Powerful keyword searching including references
  • Further information popups embedded anywhere in the section/content
  • Audio narration (Author) embedded in any section
  • Clickable references (inline), all within a section and a dynamically generated references section including direction links to sections containing each reference and links
  • Clickable abbreviations popups to reveal meanings
  • Sentiment gathering for every section
  • Content zooming for detailed figures/tables
  • Live polling questions showing culminative voting results
  • Embedded video
  • Metrics dashboard capturing Panl section views, polling, QR scans and likes
  • Easy to follow user guide
  • Kiosk only:
    • Timeout screen reset (after inactivity)
    • Touchscreen keyboard
    • QR code for viewing on own device - Scan 'n' Go!
  • New in version 1.1 - Elements (micro-apps)
    • Figur: animated and interactive figures and graphics
    • Slidr: interactive slide decks with download features

Panl poster for scientific exchange

Panl was initially developed to solve a very common problem with scientific posters of how to view and navigate a poster on a mobile device. Even today, around 95% of QR codes on printed posters when scanned on a mobile device take the user to a PDF. The frustration of trying to find key information within the ocean of verbosity is very much a needle in a haystack. Pinching and swiping small screens and never getting to the prize.
Panl solved all of this by providing intelligent content scaling and navigation system - it knows your browser and device specification so it can scale the content optimally for the best viewing experience, ensuring intuitive navigation and with search tools that enable you to find exactly what you are looking for on any device - painlessly!

Panl kiosk for exhibitions and events

Panl is a great sustainable solution for exhibition display panels. Panl can be updated at any time and reused for any number of live events. No more wasteful print that is used once and scrapped. Panl provides deeper engagement for end-users with it's wealth of interactive features and can share information in a frictionless manner - users can Scan 'n' Go - scanning a QR code to obtain the Panl on their own device!

Panl scientific poster demo >>

Panl kiosk demo >>

Panl poster live demo - use the navigation bar icons to the bottom of the screen to get started. Click the i icon to see the user guide.

Panl kiosk live demo - use the navigation bar icons to the bottom of the screen to get started. Click the i icon to see the user guide.


02

Sparks

People nowadays simply do not have enough time.

Our target audiences need to keep up to date as information evolves and increases, but we all are literally drowning in too much content. As an industry we are all vying for the attention of audiences and are all guilty of collectively adding to the white noise in their ears.

There must be a better way?

Sparks was invented to reduce the noise, verbosity and clutter to a minimum. To focus key messages in a distilled and bite-size format that is highly visual but does not demand too much of our audience's valuable time. These simple mobile-optimised stories can convey any content in an engaging and meaningful way. A series of concise screens empower a viewer to quickly digest the content that is voiced in their native language/vocabulary and providing a jump-off interaction to lead to deeper-dive content.

Sparks include interactive elements such as live polling questions that help to not only engage but to capture valuable audience insights and metrics.

Sparks have a myriad of potential use cases including traffic drivers, live event notifications, publication enhancers and patient recruitment and many more!

Spark your audience's interest with the ignition to engage further.

Key features:

  • Visually impelling and highly impactful
  • Mobile-prioritised but scale to fit any screen including Apple Watch!
  • Multiple Sparks menu - link any number of Sparks as chapters in a story
  • Multiple language menu - any number of languages
  • Embeddable into platforms such as Medscape/Skipta as example - more to come!
  • Dynamically generated popup table of contents
  • Audio narration embedded in any page
  • Clickable abbreviations popups to reveal meanings
  • Sentiment gathering for every page
  • Inline live polling question showing culminative voting results and captured in a database
  • Further information popups embedded anywhere in the content
  • Embedded video and video page backgrounds
  • Animated builds of text and graphical content
  • Audience metrics capture
  • Call to action toolbar examples (but not limited to):
    • References with links
    • Important Safety Information
    • Links to PI

Sparks demo >>

Sparks live demo - use the navigation chevrons to the middle of the screen to move through the pages, or select the dropdown menu to jump straight to a page


03

Facets [fast access to assets]

Facets is a powerful content media viewing and sharing tool for exhibition booths - both touchscreen and tablets. It has an intuitive interface that delivers practically any type of media including slides, PDFs, videos, web-apps, and even real-time 3D interactives, in a clear and unobtrusive way.

The interface is made up of media tiles, clicking a tile will zoom the media to fill the screen and provide navigation button to move forward and backwards through the pages/slides of the media. A novel QR code system enables the downloadable media onto a user's own device - simply scan and go! Any media element can be set to be downloadable (or not if preferred). User details can be optionally captured in a pain-free method again using the unique QR code. Facets was designed primarily for touchscreen and tablet use making it ideal for exhibition booths or any live event setting and for hybrid use for virtual attendees.

Facets also provides a deep navigation menu that enables the granular jump from any page/slide of any presentation to any other, saving time and effort in searching for the information your audience is seeking. With this powerful navigation feature, it has been used extensively as a pitch presentation tool and leave-behind. The deep navigation enables quick, on-the-fly jumping between any slide decks when a client drops a curve ball question and you need to jump to the perfect slide, and then go back to where you left off!

Key features:

  • Tile-based media presentations
  • Scales to fit any screen
  • Touchscreen optimised (kiosk and tablet)
  • Deep navigation - from any slide/page to any in another presentation instantly
  • QR scan and go to share media with users
  • QR scan and go to capture user details
  • Media can be grouped in titled sections

Facets demo >>

Facets live demo - scroll down to see all of the media tiles, and click any to view their content. Use the dropdown menu to the left to jump to any page/slide of any tiles media.


04

Engagr

Engagr is a simple, yet powerful live event engagement and pre-event promotion tool. It is mobile-prioritised and aimed at delegates to assist their attendance at your event. Providing powerful engagement tools that enable digital interaction whether your event is the smallest local MSL meeting or a big launch symposium - the app scales seamlessly, and more importantly, cost-effectively. Delivering content before the live event to maximise attendance sharing agenda, faculty and event details, during the live event with live voting, and after the event sharing presentations and videos.

The unique Colour Card Polling enables live voting engagement for audiences of any size and removes the need for advance setup of technology - it just works out of the box and yet captures the insights you need. When the user selects their answer, the app fills their screen with a colour corresponding to their selection and the whole room's colours can be seen be everyone, making it a more engaging a fun way to poll!

Key features:

  • Responsive scaling on any device/browser
  • Simple and intuitive navigation
  • Event information with zoomable maps, floor plans and photos
  • Agenda including multiple days
  • Faculty with biogs
  • Speaker presentations to view (and download if approved)
  • Colour card Polling and result capture to database
  • Media centre containing PDFs, slides and videos (presentations) to view and download
  • Dashbaord with metrics/polling capture and feature toggle switching - turn content on/off on the fly

Engagr demo >>

Engagr live demo - Click on large colour blocks (or menu to the bottom) to view their content. The user guide gives detailed instruction on how to use this intuitive platform.


05

Scope

Scope was developed as a large-data navigation tool, providing a very intuitive interface using a within a few clicks navigation. Content is presented using a graphical technique called collapsable accordions. These enable progressive disclosure of the content in visually-manageable chunks, meaning the user does not get lost in too much information! With this method, the app enables users to quickly find what they are looking for in a large corpus of information such as an SCP, GVD/CVD, study protocol, objection handler or FAQ as examples.

The interface includes powerful keyword and reference searching, and inline clickable reference pop-ups, clickable abbreviation pop-ups and embedded interactivity including self-test questions. Capture user comments local to their device without GDPR issues and exporting to Word format, printing of any content and all this on any device...even on a mobile, where you can have what was a 300 page printed document now in your pocket by using Scope.

Key features:

  • Responsive scaling on any device/browser
  • Simple and intuitive navigation
  • Progressive disclosure of content using accordions
  • Dynamic numbering of tiered content sections
  • Powerful keyword searching including references with links to found
  • Dynamically generated reference section with keyword and tag filtering - with deep links to where the references are within the content
  • Clickable abbreviations
  • Clickable references
  • Print the content you want
  • Capture your notes securely and export to Word
  • Dynamically generated index section for instant navigation

Scope demo >>

Scope live demo - use the main menu to the left to open each key section. Click on the folder icons on any accordion to expand their content.

Contact Remote Control Digital

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Remote Control Digital

Registered Office:
5 Hallefield Drive,
Macclesfield,
Cheshire
UK
Company number: 16290361
VAT number: 491 4274 78