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April 09, 2007
Literature Review - Dynamo
This is the first of many papers on public displays that I will be reading in the coming weeks in the attempt to build a public display bibliography.
Dynamo (Izadi, Brignull et al. 2003):Dynamo is a shared multi-user interactive surface. This paper discusses the dynamo system and observations made during its deployment for 10 days in a High School common area. The Dynamo display is a shared surface that can be accessed by multiple mice and keyboards at the same time, and allows user to share and display media. For example, a user could connect their USB drive to the Dynamo display, and display an image stored on the drive, or connect to a website and display media using a web-browser. The display supports varying levels of interaction, for example, users can watch the content on the display, share content on the display, or register with the display to gain additional functionality. In addition to discussing the Dynamo display, the authors perform an ethnographic study of the adoption of the dynamo display, and provide some guidelines for public display designers including: interactive displays should be integrated into the existing environment, displays should support flexible arrangement of content, displays should support many functions so that they can be appropriated by their users, and display should provide mechanisms that support gradual buy-in. [This paper also has a nice paragraph discussing the difficulty of deploying displays in a space with the goal of enhancing community]
Links for more information:
http://www.ux-design.net/dynamo-interactive.com/
Izadi, S., H. Brignull, et al. (2003). Dynamo: a public interactive surface supporting the cooperative sharing and exchange of media. Proceedings of the 16th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology. Vancouver, Canada, ACM Press.
Posted by bcx at April 9, 2007 08:16 PM