Designing "interacting places" for a student community using a communicative ecology approach

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013

Schieck

Kostopoulou

et al. 2013

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Abstract. Large public displays are becoming a ubiquitous resource in the urban environment. Interconnected over the Internet these hitherto isolated "ad displays" could become a novel and powerful communication medium -networked public displays. One example for such a novel type of communication is their use as community tools. Scattered across the urban landscape and equipped with additional sensors, such as cameras, they provide the opportunity for local community members to take images of themselves and leave their "mark" in the setting, e.g., on their way to school, work, or meeting with friends. In order to understand the potential of posting situated snapshots on networked public displays in the context of place-based communities we designed and developed the Moment Machine -a networked public display application that allows one-click photo capture. In this paper we report on identified opportunities and challenges emerging from 6 user trials in the wild at 2 locations.

Section: Where Should the Images Appearmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Moment Machine: Opportunities and Challenges of Posting Situated Snapshots onto Networked Public Displays

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013

Schieck

Kostopoulou

et al. 2013

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“…Their system allows posting and viewing of classifieds on a public display network, while at the same time preserving locality and local nature of postings. Memarovic et al's investigation has looked into how networked public displays can be integrated within existing ICTs such as Facebook and Twitter [23,29]. Their research pointed out the potential of situated snapshots -pictures taken through display attached camera that are later available for viewing on a display network [23] or somewhere on the web, e.g., Facebok [22].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In other words, the effects of networked public displays could be compared to the effects produced by other media. At the beginning, this does not have to be a statistical comparison of what media produces more of the effects, but rather a qualitative one that would show how networked public displays fit in within the rest of the media [29].…”

Section: Open Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding future challenges for networked public display systems in community settings

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Communities and Technologies

2015

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Networked public displays are envisioned as a communication medium for the 21 st century, and as such they have a great potential to address place-based communities. This area has seen an increasing numbers of investigations of networked public displays effects on communities and the way they impact interactions between community members. However, most of this research stands alone in isolation, with little work looking into synthesizing the systems, processes, research questions, and evaluation procedures and effects they produce. In this paper we look at seminal works in the area, i.e., the Wray Photo Display, the Plasma Poster Network, CoCollage, and UBI-Hotspots, and analyze the systems themselves, settings in which they were deployed and respective communities, the processes leading to building up the system, the research questions that were examined, and the effects of the networked public display systems on the community. We discuss the similarities and differences in these works and provide insights for the designers and developers of similar future systems, with a goal to present open challenges for the future work.

“…Schroeter et al examine the "sweet spot" between people, content and display location and describe how these three parameters influence the users' quantity and quality of feedback to a civic-related topic . Similarly, the Memarovic et al have also explored content preferences for networked public displays for a student community and how networked public displays would 'fit in' within the existing information and communication technologies, namely, social networking sites, email, and instant messaging services [Memarovic et al 2012c].…”

Section: Situated Displays and Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

P-LAYERS -- A Layered Framework Addressing the Multifaceted Issues Facing Community-Supporting Public Display Deployments

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

Langheinrich

Cheverst

et al. 2013

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The proliferation of digital signage systems has prompted a wealth of research that attempts to use public displays for more than just advertisement or transport schedules, such as their use for supporting communities. However, deploying and maintaining display systems “in the wild” that can support communities is challenging. Based on the authors’ experiences in designing and fielding a diverse range of community-supporting public display deployments, we identify a large set of challenges and issues that researchers working in this area are likely to encounter. Grouping them into five distinct layers -- (1) hardware, (2) system architecture, (3) content, (4) system interaction, and (5) community interaction design -- we draw up the P-LAYERS framework to enable a more systematic appreciation of the diverse range of issues associated with the development, the deployment, and the maintenance of such systems. Using three of our own deployments as illustrative examples, we will describe both our experiences within each individual layer, as well as point out interactions between the layers. We believe our framework provides a valuable aid for researchers looking to work in this space, alerting them to the issues they are likely to encounter during their deployments, and help them plan accordingly.