Digifieds: Evaluating Suitable Interaction Techniques for Shared Public Notice Areas
Florian Alt, Dominik Bial, Thomas Kubitza, Alireza Sahami Shirazi, Markus Ortel, Björn Zurmaar, Firas Zaidan, Tim Lewen, Albrecht Schmidt · 2011
Abstract. Public notice areas are nowadays being widely used in stores, restaurants, cafes and public institutions by customers and visitors to sell or advertise products and upcoming events. Although web platforms such as Craigslist or eBay offer similar services, traditional notice areas are highly popular as using pen and paper poses only a minimal barrier to share content. With public displays proliferating the public space and with means to network these displays, novel opportunities arise as to how information can be managed and shared. In an initial step we systematically assessed factors inhibiting or promoting the shared use of public display space and derived design implications for providing a digital version of such public notice areas [2]. In this poster we report on the implementation of such a digital shared notice area, called Digifieds. With an initial lab study we aimed at understanding suitable means of interaction when it comes to creating, posting, and taking away content. 1