Pins and posters: Paradigms for content publication on situated displays

Abstract

Public-display systems are still far from being a medium for meeting people's diverse communication goals. Moving toward open displays will require publication paradigms that can overcome the challenges of meaningful engagement and enable users to fully understand and control the publication process. The metaphors of pins and posters have inspired two complementary paradigms for public displays. Researchers implemented these paradigms in the Instant Places system, which they deployed on 10 displays in diverse urban locations for six months. They collected user and system data regarding the users' practices. The findings improve the understanding of what might drive user-generated content in networks of urban displays. Such knowledge can inform the design of tools and procedures for situated publication in public displays.

Understanding future challenges for networked public display systems in community settings

“…While the above-works investigated the effects of networked public displays in urban environments, Churchill et al [7] and Jose et al [17] have made their deployments in third places such as cafes. Churchil et al have investigated how simple scribbling on a public display can be used to connect people that stop by at the café.…”

“…Of course, this implies more research efforts and resources in order to determine the impact of the applications on multiple settings and their respective communities. A possible solution for this would be to investigate an application within existing testbeds in Lancaster [5], Oulu [36], Minho [17], London and Nottingham [34], or Lugano [22]. Differences between the communities should be considered in this case, e.g., size, values, and existing sense of community (as pointed out by [20]).…”

“…Most of these works investigated different settings, e.g., communities in rural villages [16,40], third places such as cafes and bars [17,20], or urban public areas [2,23,39]. There were different processes that lead to the design of the systems, from full and immersive participatory design [40] to the more distant ones where the infrastructure was simply put into the setting [36].…”

“…Also these systems had varying applications running on them, e.g., photo booth like applications that allowed passers-by to take the photos [23], digital public notice boards that allowed information exchange between community members [2], or applications that allowed passers-by to post opinions in the form of text messages about locally relevant topics [39]. Also, these applications have investigated different research questions and have examined different effects on community and community interaction, e.g., from their ability to stimulate civic engagement [39], their ability to stimulate social interaction around a display [26], or how they allow community members to express their membership explicitly in different forms, e.g., pins and posters [17]. Despite the wealth of research in the area there has been very little effort to look into synthesizing the work across different settings and "in the wild" deployments.…”

Understanding Display Blindness in Future Display Deployments

“…Request permissions from Permissions@acm.org. living labs and "in the wild" display testbeds have emerged, allowing researchers to study key factors in pervasive display deployments [5,15,29,30].…”