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TRY Conference 2012
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Digital Signage at the Library
Sian Meikle@UTLBilal Bilal Khalid
Graham Stewart
Digital signage design Robarts digital signage three ways Robarts signage: how we built itRobarts signage: how they use itRobarts signage: what we learned
Overview
Good signs can make a difference...
Gary Larson, The Far Side, 1985
Simple: ○ Reduce: punctuation, pictures, words○ Headline: 22 characters○ Body: 10-18 words○ Short URLs
Brief:○ 5 seconds per slide○ 8-10 seconds total
Clear:○ Call to action: Chat with a librarian○ Photographs can be powerful○ Coherent design
Writing the message
Chunking○ 4 1 6 9 7 8 8 4 5 0
○ 416 978 845
Coding○ Group similar things together
○ Add headings
Serial position○ prime spots on a list: first and last
Presenting the message
Putting it into action
Eric Kobel, "Digital Signage Design Suggestions", UC Santa Barbara Housing & Residential Services
http://www.housing.ucsb.edu/digiknow/images/design_suggestions.pdf
Putting it in action
Virginia Commonwealth University http://m.ts.vcu.edu/kb/images/GreenWorks3.jpg
What make digital signage different?
Easy to update
Can differentiate content by
○ time of day
○ audience
○ viewing time
What users say
1. Help me make better decisions Chat with a librarian, workshops2. Save me time Maps: library, stacks, workstations
Directories: by floor, service, name, library3. Show me something relevant to me
News, community content4. Tell me something new and interesting
Exhibits, events, news5. Give me ideas
Collection highlightsexcerpted from Chris Heap, "Seven Principles of Success for Digital Signage"http://www.digitalscreenmedia.org/the-perspective/view/17239/dse--seven-principles-of-success-for-digital-signage
Robarts digital signage:Overhead information signs
Robarts digital signage:Building directories
Robarts digital signage:Interactive touch screens
Robarts digital signage:Interactive touch screens
Touchscreen Kiosks
● PHP - CodeIgniter
● jQuery
● MySQL
● Closed Environment
● Javascript Keyboard
Touchscreen Kiosk Interaction
Most frequent pageviews● Libraries & Hours● Robarts Directory● Workstations
User Feedback● Let me find a book!● Let me access this info from my phone!
Touchscreen Kiosks - What's Next
● Catalogue Search○ Entire catalogue available
● StackMap
○ Map of physical item location, with directions
● Responsive Design
○ Designed to be used on any device (e.g. Desktop,
Tablet, Smartphone...)
Overhead Signage
● 4 vertical screens○ PHP + AJAX
● Media Commons○ Javascript video player
● Fisher Rare Book○ Screensaver
Overhead Signage - Features
● Auto Refresh○ Detection of new content
● Remote Control
○ Ability to have different
slideshows
○ Control to switch between
slideshows
Overhead Signage - What's Next
● Scala
○ Content Regions
○ RSS Feeds from Drupal
○ Scheduling
Building Directories
● One PHP + Javascript
page per vertical pylon
(two vertical screens)
● Alternating Event Feed
Display (from Drupal,
via AJAX)
Digital signage development and the Devops movement
Devops: agile methodology applied to system administration
Agile
Set of software development methods, formulated 2001
Rapid
Iterative
Quick release cycles
Fast adaptation to requirement changes
Continuous development, after code releases
"Testing in Production"
Agile Teams
Self organizing
Cross functional
Quick daily meetings
Open environments, face to face meetings, frequent interrupts
Encourage input from many sources and different ranges of expertise and experience
Trust
Impact of Agile on system administration?
Site creation, rollout, update, maintenance timeframes all shrink
Web presence critical for most organizations
Software is developed much faster and changes are more frequent: sysadmins can't move slowly if developers are moving fast
Massive growth in automation tools
Growth in open source software: sharing and collaboration
Cloud
Devops goals
1. Eliminate stereotypes:-"developers are careless and arrogant"; "sysadmins
are grumpy and always say no"-"developers go home at 4:30"; "sysadmins are martyrs
and work all night"
2. Increase communication between developers, operations, and management
3. Continuous systems improvement
4. Break down barriers and silos
5. Develop methods to encourage all team members to see the organization's goals as the desired target, rather than individual goals
Source: http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x/special-events/devops-day-los-angeles
Source: http://mdzlog.alcor.net/tag/devops/
Advantages of working in Devops mode
All staff can use all their skills => diversity => use knowledge outside defined roles => roles expand => cross pollination => creativity=> "many minds"
Enhanced mutual respect and communication => greater trust => shared responsibility=> everyone feels a sense of ownership over the end
product => greater commitment to the product => everyone focused on the organization’s end goal
Happier, more productive staff, because work is FUN !
Devops methodology: digital signage examples
Operations and development involved jointly from the start
Weekly full meetings and as necessary (often daily) quick interrupts / one-on-ones for specific issues
Fast code releases: several times/week.
"Many Minds" => two screen display: one browser? 2 PCs? 1 video
card or 2? flipped portrait mode or vertical landscape mode?
=> disabling right click=> URL shortening options
Devops: more digital signage examples
Planning and execution:=> browser choice => OS choice=> development options=> design decisions
How do we keep browser sessions from finding the Internet? Proxies? Whitelists? No links?
How do we do an onscreen keyboard? OS version? Javascript? HTML?
New and experimental project: innovative methods required
Thank you !
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