Setting up a Long-Term Evaluation Environment for interactive semi-public Information Displays

Abstract

Human-computer interaction research increasingly focuses on the long-term evaluation of real-world field deployments. When dealing with innovative solutions and when asking for the possibility to do action research in the deployment, fitting real-world deployments are hard to find – and access to these deployments is hard to obtain. We decided to invest in setting up and managing a long-term de- ployment of an interactive large information screen solution at our university, which includes several displays. In this paper, we briefly report about the installation – the CommunityMirror Network – as well as its functionality and operations management.