Supporting Community Awareness with Interactive Displays

  • Authors:
  • Nick Taylor;Keith Cheverst

  • Affiliations:
  • Newcastle University;Lancaster University

  • Venue:
  • Computer
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

A review of the experience with thelong-term deployment of a photo display and digital noticeboard in a rural villagedemonstrates how interactive displays can support awareness, preserve localhistory, and disseminate information of local interest. The featured Web extra is a video interview titled "Supporting Community Awareness and History with Interactive Displays" in which Nick Taylor and Keith Cheverst discuss a Newcastle University program that explores the use of interactive displays in rural areas.