Door Mounted Super-Message Board for Iribe Center
Imagine that you have an Internet-ready, door mounted, touchscreen,
electronic message board on the door of every faculty and staff member
in the the new Iribe Center.
The form factor is likely a ten to twelve inch display, possibly with
1024x768 resolution (we have to buy a LOT of these).
You need to design the software that will make it more than a
somewhat expensive (at the scale we're talking) "shiny thing" on
everyone's door.
You will need a message board "app" with which visitors to the door
will interact. You will need to take some time and care designing the
layout of this app. You may choose to have it act as a single window
pane, or have it divided into several panes, each having different
information. You can allow new panes to pop up, allow the user to zoom
into panes or even areas of panes. It is up to you, but design with care
and tell use what restrictions you are adding to the specification of the
size of the message board.
You will need to create a client (preferably web-based so it can
be accessed from Mac/PC/Mobile/etc) for the faculty and staff members
to use in order to configure and interact with their message board,
since we assume you are going to allow various customizations and
person-specific information for anyone who chooses to use the board
beyond and default way you provide.
For example, the office occupant might want to send new information to
the board and possibly retrieve information from the board if you have
enabled visitors to somehow leave messages within the board.
Minimum requirements
the message board has a touch screen
give information about whose office it is
what the office occupant's available hours are in general
what are today's hours are
have "current message" that can be updated remotely
it cannot have a keyboard or mouse or any other similar peripheral
Some things to get you stated thinking about other uses (ask the potential
users for more ideas, and realize some might say "I wouldn't use it for
anything I didn't have to")
leave messages for faculty member?
limited access to the web?
what if there is more than one faculty member in the office?
are there security issues with which you wish to deal?
do you want to add other hardware to accomplish other things?
(memory card or usb reader, Bluetooth, IR port, etc.)
Your prototype needs to be populated with realistic information and
needs to address questions such as faculty/staff setup, access, and
usage as well as student privacy.
This page may be updated with additional guidelines within the next
few days...
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