Designing a Mixed Digital Signage and Multi-touch Interaction for Social Learning

Abstract

Recently, digital signage has been getting popular in public and private environments, such as retail stores, museums, corporate buildings and even campuses. Digital signage with large and vivid LCD display is typically used as public information exhibition. In spite of growing popularity of digital signage, the lack of interactive capabilities of conventional digital signage prevents students from further exploring and sharing information on the display for learning purpose. Multi-touch interaction with large display, on the other hand, provides natural and intuitive interfaces that can potentially attract students to engage and play in public space. However, how to design a multi-touch application to engage students in a natural and playful learning environment still remains less unexplored research area because it requires developing a new innovation of hardware and software complexity.