Article

Probing communities: study of a village photo display

Authors:

Keith Cheverst,

Nicholas J. P. Race,

Mark Rouncefield,

Connor GrahamAuthors Info & Claims

OZCHI '07: Proceedings of the 19th Australasian conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Entertaining User Interfaces

Pages 17 - 24

https://doi.org/10.1145/1324892.1324896

Published: 28 November 2007 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper we describe a technology probe aiming to aid understanding of how digital displays can help support communities. Using a simple photo gallery application, deployed in a central social point in a small village and displaying user-generated photos and videos, we have been able to gain an understanding of this setting, field test our device and inspire new ideas directly from members of the community. We explore the process of deploying this display, the response from residents and how the display has taken a place within the community.

References

[1]

Brignull, H. and Rogers, Y. Enticing people to interact with large public displays in public places. In Proceedings of the IFIP International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 03), (Zurich, Switzerland, Sept. 1--5, 2003), IOS Press, 2003, 17--24.

[2]

Cheverst, K., Clarke, K., Fitton, D., Rouncefield, M., Crabtree, A. and Hemmings, T. SPAM on the menu: the practical use of remote messaging in community care. SIGCAPH Comput. Phys. Handicap., 73--74 (Jun. 2002), 23--29.

Digital Library

[3]

Cheverst, K., Dix, A., Fitton, D., Kray, C., Rouncefield, M., Sas, C., Saslis-Lagoudakis, G. and Sheridan, J. G. Exploring Bluetooth based mobile phone interaction with the Hermes photo display. In Proceedings of the 7th international Conference on Human Computer interaction with Mobile Devices & Services (MobileHCI 05), (Salzburg, Austria, Sept. 19--22, 2005), ACM Press, 2005, 47--54.

Digital Library

[4]

Cheverst, K., Conder, C., Graham, C. and Rouncefield, M. Scarecrow Ethnography. Ethnography Conference, University of Liverpool, 2006.

[5]

Churchill, E., Girgensohn, A., Nelson, L. and Lee, A. Blending digital and physical spaces for ubiquitous community participation. Commun ACM 47, 2 (Feb. 2004), 38--44.

Digital Library

[6]

Ferscha, A. and Vogl, S. Pervasive Web access via public communication walls. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 02), (Zurich, Switzerland, Aug. 26--28, 2002), Springer-Verlag, 2002, 84--97.

Digital Library

[7]

Greenberg, S. and Rounding, M. The Notification Collage: posting information to public and personal displays. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 01), (Seattle, Washington, 2001), ACM Press, 2001, 514--521.

Digital Library

[8]

Hutchinson, H., Mackay, W., Westerlund, B., Bederson, B. B., Druin, A., Plaisant, C., Beaudouin-Lafon, M., Conversy, S., Evans, H., Hansen, H., Roussel, N. and Eiderbäck, B. Technology probes: inspiring design for and with families. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 03), (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, Apr. 05--10, 2003), ACM Press, 2003, 17--24.

Digital Library

[9]

Izadi, S., Brignull, H., Rodden, T., Rogers, Y. and Underwood, M. Dynamo: a public interactive surface supporting the cooperative sharing and exchange of media. In Proceedings of the 16th Annual ACM Symposium on User interface Software and Technology (UIST 03), (Vancouver, Canada, Nov. 02--05, 2003), ACM Press, 2003, 159--168.

Digital Library

[10]

Maunder, A., Marsden, G. and Harper, R. Creating and sharing multi-media packages using large situated public displays and mobile phones. In Proceedings of the 9^th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 07), (Singapore, Sep. 9--12, 2007), ACM Press, 2007, 188--191.

Digital Library

[11]

Mynatt, E. D., O'Day, V. L., Adler, A. and Ito, M. Network Communities: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed. Comput. Supported Coop. Work 7, 1--2 (Jan. 1998), 123--156.

Digital Library

[12]

O'Hara, K., Perry, M. and Lewis, S. Social coordination around a situated display appliance. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 03), (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, Apr. 05--10, 2003), ACM Press, 2003, 65--72.

Digital Library

[13]

Romero, N., van Baren, J., Markopoulos, P., de Ruyter, B. and IJsselsteijn, W. Addressing interpersonal communication needs through ubiquitous connectivity: Home and away. In Proceedings of the European Symposium on Ambient Intelligence (EUSAI 03), (Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Nov. 3--4, 2003), Springer, 2003, 419--429.

[14]

Rossman, M. Implications of community memory. SIGCAS Comput. Soc. 6, 4 (Dec. 1975), 7--10.

Digital Library

[15]

Rouncefield, M., Cheverst, K., Dix, A., Gibbs, M. and Graham, C. Workshop position paper: Understanding space, place and 'community'. In Proceedings of Interact 05 workshop on 'Space, Place and Experience in HCI' (Interact 05), 2005.

Cited By

Biedermann PCoenen JDe Roeck DVande Moere A(2023)PosterTalk: Expanding Participatory Agency in Public Survey Platforms via Middle-Out GatekeepingProceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference10.1145/3563657.3595984(2573-2592)Online publication date: 10-Jul-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3563657.3595984
Bødker SKorsgaard HLyle P(2021)What’s in a Pattern: A Vocabulary to Articulate Group Routines and PracticesProceedings of the 10th International Conference on Communities & Technologies - Wicked Problems in the Age of Tech10.1145/3461564.3461570(179-190)Online publication date: 20-Jun-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3461564.3461570
Rogage KKirk DCharlton JNally CSwords JWatson R(2021)Memoryscapes: Designing Situated Narratives of Place through Heritage CollectionsInternational Journal of Human–Computer Interaction10.1080/10447318.2020.186500437:11(1028-1048)Online publication date: 12-Jan-2021
https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2020.1865004
Show More Cited By

Index Terms

Probing communities: study of a village photo display
1. Human-centered computing

Recommendations

"This might be stupid, but...": participatory design with community displays and postcards
OZCHI '08: Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Designing for Habitus and Habitat

We describe our experiences of designing a digital community display with members of a rural community. These experiences are highlighted by the development of printed and digital postcard features for the Wray Photo Display, a public photosharing ...
Community Interaction and Conflict on the Web
WWW '18: Proceedings of the 2018 World Wide Web Conference

Users organize themselves into communities on web platforms. These communities can interact with one another, often leading to conflicts and toxic interactions. However, little is known about the mechanisms of interactions between communities and how ...
Sustainable HCI for grassroots urban food-growing communities
OzCHI '13: Proceedings of the 25th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference: Augmentation, Application, Innovation, Collaboration

Mainstream food growing practices around the world call in to question our future food security, and in particular the sustainability of food consumption in urban centres. At the same time there has been a dramatic recent increase in grassroots urban ...

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Other conferences

OZCHI '07: Proceedings of the 19th Australasian conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Entertaining User Interfaces

November 2007

323 pages

ISBN:9781595938725

DOI:10.1145/1324892

Conference Chair:
Bruce Thomas
University of South Australia
,
Program Chair:
Mark Billinghurst
University of Canterbury

Copyright © 2007 ACM.

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

Sponsors

TechSmith
The Hiser Group
DSTO: The Defence Science and Technology Organisation
Tobii
Objective Digital

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 28 November 2007

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Request Permissions

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Article

Conference

OZCHI '07

Sponsor:

DSTO

OZCHI '07: Proceedings of the 19th conference of the computer-human interaction special interest group of Australia on Computer-human interaction: design

November 28 - 30, 2007

Adelaide, Australia

Acceptance Rates

OZCHI '07 Paper Acceptance Rate 26 of 42 submissions, 62%;

Overall Acceptance Rate 362 of 729 submissions, 50%

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

47
Total Citations
View Citations
509
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)3
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)0

Reflects downloads up to 03 Mar 2025

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Biedermann PCoenen JDe Roeck DVande Moere A(2023)PosterTalk: Expanding Participatory Agency in Public Survey Platforms via Middle-Out GatekeepingProceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference10.1145/3563657.3595984(2573-2592)Online publication date: 10-Jul-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3563657.3595984
Bødker SKorsgaard HLyle P(2021)What’s in a Pattern: A Vocabulary to Articulate Group Routines and PracticesProceedings of the 10th International Conference on Communities & Technologies - Wicked Problems in the Age of Tech10.1145/3461564.3461570(179-190)Online publication date: 20-Jun-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3461564.3461570
Rogage KKirk DCharlton JNally CSwords JWatson R(2021)Memoryscapes: Designing Situated Narratives of Place through Heritage CollectionsInternational Journal of Human–Computer Interaction10.1080/10447318.2020.186500437:11(1028-1048)Online publication date: 12-Jan-2021
https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2020.1865004
Coutinho PJosé R(2019)A Risk Management Framework for User-Generated Content on Public Display SystemsAdvances in Human-Computer Interaction10.1155/2019/97692462019Online publication date: 1-Jan-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1155/2019/9769246
Struzek DDickel MRandall DMüller C(2019)How live streaming church services promotes social participation in rural areasInteractions10.1145/337326327:1(64-69)Online publication date: 26-Dec-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3373263
Hardy JWyche SVeinot T(2019)Rural HCI ResearchProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/33592983:CSCW(1-33)Online publication date: 7-Nov-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3359298
Graham CRouncefield M(2018)Cultural Probes as a People-Oriented MethodInnovative Methods, User-Friendly Tools, Coding, and Design Approaches in People-Oriented Programming10.4018/978-1-5225-5969-6.ch005(132-173)Online publication date: 2018
https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5969-6.ch005
Liu CBengler BDi Cuia DSeaborn KNunes Vilaza GGallacher SCapra LRogers YKoskinen ILim YCerratto-Pargman TChow KOdom W(2018)PinsightProceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference10.1145/3196709.3196782(1169-1181)Online publication date: 8-Jun-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3196709.3196782
Liu CBalestrini MVilaza G(2018)From Social to Civic: Public Engagement with IoT in Places and CommunitiesSocial Internet of Things10.1007/978-3-319-94659-7_10(185-210)Online publication date: 20-Jul-2018
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94659-7_10
Coutinho PJose R(2017)Moderation techniques for user-generated content in place-based communication2017 12th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI)10.23919/CISTI.2017.7975786(1-6)Online publication date: Jun-2017
https://doi.org/10.23919/CISTI.2017.7975786
Show More Cited By

View Options

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

eReader

View online with eReader.

Figures

Tables

Media

View Table of Conten