Title
Designing for bystanders: reflections on building a public digital forum
Abstract
In this paper, we reflect on the design and deployment process of MAGICBoard, a public display deployed in a university setting that solicits the electronic votes and opinions of bystanders on trivial but amusing topics. We focus on the consequences of our design choices with respect to encouraging bystanders to interact with the public display. Bystanders are individuals around the large display who may never fully engage with the application itself, but are potential contributors to the system. Drawing on our recent experiences with MAGICBoard, we present a classification of bystanders, and then discuss three design themes relevant to the design of systems for bystander use: graduated proximal engagement, lowering barriers for interaction and supporting covert engagement.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1145/1357054.1357193
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
public digital forum,design theme,electronic vote,proximal engagement,deployment process,bystander use,large display,public display,design choice,amusing topic,covert engagement,sms,mobile computing,mobile computer
Mobile computing,World Wide Web,Software deployment,Computer science,Covert,Human–computer interaction
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
26
1.48
12
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anthony Tang195752.57
Mattias Finke2261.48
Michael Blackstock340729.50
Rock Leung425917.98
Meghan Deutscher5332.62
R. Lea661263.34