Designing Interaction for Local Communications: An Urban Screen Study

Redhead, Fiona; Brereton, Margot

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-03658-3_49

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“…These studies demonstrate how user awareness is increased by introducing displays and analyze the kind of content used in communication. Moreover, public display networks also support the development of communities [29,30] and can even act as a meeting point for users with common interests [39]. In contrast to prior work that looks into effects on the user and the environment, Digifieds was designed to investigate suitable interaction techniques in such settings.…”

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Interaction techniques for creating and exchanging content with public displays

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Shirazi

Kubitza

et al. 2013

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Falling hardware prices and ever more displays being connected to the Internet will lead to large public display networks, potentially forming a novel communication medium. We envision that such networks are not restricted to display owners and advertisers anymore, but allow also passersby (e.g., customers) to exchange content, similar to traditional public notice areas, such as bulletin boards. In this context it is crucial to understand emerging practices and provide easy and straight forward interaction techniques to be used for creating and exchanging content. In this paper, we present Digifieds, a digital public notice area we built to investigate and compare possible interaction techniques. Based on a lab study we show that using direct touch at the display as well as using the mobile phone as a complementing interaction technology are most suitable. Direct touch at the display closely resembles the interaction known from classic bulletin boards and provides the highest usability. Mobile phones preserve the users' privacy as they exchange (sensitive) data with the display and at the same time allow content to be created on-thego or to be retrieved.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interaction techniques for creating and exchanging content with public displays

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Shirazi

Kubitza

et al. 2013

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…suggestions for content and features of such displays, support the perspective of the community and delivery of local messages. A report of their findings on the usage of a digital community notice board is available in [14].…”

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Designing Shared Public Display Networks – Implications from Today’s Paper-Based Notice Areas

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Memarović

Elhart

et al. 2011

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Large public displays have become a regular conceptual element in many shops and businesses, where they advertise products or highlight upcoming events. In our work, we are interested in exploring how these isolated display solutions can be interconnected to form a single large network of public displays, thus supporting novel forms of sharing access to display real estate. In order to explore the feasibility of this vision, we investigated today's practices surrounding shared notice areas, i.e. places where customers and visitors can put up event posters and classifieds, such as shop windows or notice boards. In particular, we looked at the content posted to such areas, the means for sharing it (i.e., forms of content control), and the reason for providing the shared notice area. Based on two-week long photo logs and a number of in-depth interviews with providers of such notice areas, we provide a systematic assessment of factors that inhibit or promote the shared use of public display space, ultimately leading to a set of concrete design implication for providing future digital versions of such public notice areas in the form of networked public displays.

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“…For example, communities of practice, as defined by Wenger, refers to groups of people tied through a common craft or profession [Wenger 1998]. Alternatively, communities of interest, according to Fischer describes groups of people who have a common interest in a topic [Fischer 2001], while place-based communities, as defined by Ramsey and Beesley, relates to groups of people that reside and thrive within a geographical location [Ramsey and Beesley 2007]. In the context of our work on using public displays for stimulating community interaction, we have mainly focused on place-based communities.…”

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“…Cityspeak [Lévesque et al 2006] and Digifieds [Alt et al 2011b] were similarly deployed in an urban context, yet allowed users to post their own content to the public display. The Wray Photo Display [Taylor and Cheverst 2009;Taylor and Cheverst 2012], Story Bank [Jones et al 2008], Nnub [Redhead and Brereton 2009] and BigBoard [Maunder et al 2011] are examples of public display-based community applications that were deployed in rural environments [Jones et al 2008;Taylor and Cheverst 2009] and local neighborhoods [Redhead and Brereton 2009;Maunder et al 2011]. The Wray Photo Display application showed community-sourced images, e.g., from festivals and historical events.…”

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“…This can be as simple as encouraging people in the display's vicinity to talk to each other [Memarovic et al 2012b] or, more indirectly, by allowing community membership to be expressed in some form, e.g., through badges . Displays can be used to explicitly exchange information among community members [Churchill et al 2003;Redhead and Brereton 2009;Taylor and Cheverst 2009;Alt et al 2011b] (Alt et al 2011b will be discussed more in section 4) or to prompt passersby to play for their community in a competitive game running on the display [Memarovic et al 2011b]. These different types of interventions typically require different system interaction capabilities.…”

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

Memarović

Langheinrich

Cheverst

et al. 2013

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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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.

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Designing Interaction for Local Communications: An Urban Screen Study

Cited by 30 publications

References 7 publications

Interaction techniques for creating and exchanging content with public displays

Interaction techniques for creating and exchanging content with public displays

Designing Shared Public Display Networks – Implications from Today’s Paper-Based Notice Areas

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

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