The future of signs: interactive information, inexpensively!

ABSTRACT

We present an inexpensive, interactive ubiquitous computing system that supports information presentation on demand using a novel "card reading" interaction style. We've deployed this system in our office as a means of supporting wayfinding, sales presentations, project context sharing, and notification (e.g., is there any free food in the kitchen?). However, since the system is essentially an information appliance embedded in our physical space, it also enables people to navigate through our information space-a much more challenging and exciting.

REFERENCES

• 1: McQuaid, H. L., Goel, A. & McManus, M. (2003). Designing for a Pervasive Information Environment: The Importance of Information Architecture. Proceedings of the British HCI Conference, Bath, UK. September 2003.
• 2: Want, R., Schlitt, B. N., Adams, N., Gold, R., Petersen, K., Goldberg, D., Ellis, J. R., and Weiser, M. An Overview of the ParcTab Ubiquitous Computing Experiment, in IEEE Personal Communications. 1995. pp. 28--43. December.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.1 Multimedia Information Systems

General Terms:
Design, Documentation, Experimentation, Human Factors, Performance, Reliability

Keywords:
content management system, environmental user interface design, information architecture, pervasive information environments, ubiquitous computing, wayfinding