Title:   "Messaging to Place: Exploring the Design, Deployment and Adoption of Three Situated Display based Messaging systems"
Speaker: Dr Keith Cheverst, Lancaster University
When:    14:00 Tuesday 13th December 2005
Where:   GP South Building, room 622

Abstract:
This talk focuses on our experiences with 3 situated display based messaging
systems that support notions of 'Messaging to Place". The three systems
discussed are: Hermes@Office (a system of digital office door displays
deployed within the Lancaster University Computing Department), SPAM (A
groupware system deployed to support staff at a residential care facility -
and which was co-realised through participatory design workshops involving
members of the support staff) and Hermes@Home (a very recent system deployed
in the homes of two researchers working away from home to support
intimacy/connectedness with home life). Each system has been extensively
used and a range of common themes have arisen at both technical and human
factors levels.