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YeTi Corporate Touchscreen supports sharing approved corporate information about employees, projects, events, and news between remote Fuji Xerox research labs.
YeTi is a network of large public touchscreens and associated Web interfaces for informal sharing of corporate information between distant Fuji-Xerox research labs.
YeTi has just won the first prize for "Best Utility" and tied for second prize (Professional Category) at the ACM DIS (Designing Interactive Systems) 2004 Design Awards.
YeTi is one of several Plasma Poster Networks created by the Social Computing Research Group at FXPAL, a Fuji-Xerox research lab in Palo Alto, CA. Plasma Posters Networks let people use email to post Web pages, images, movies, and formatted text to multiple poster-sized touchscreens around the world. People may also use associated websites to manage their postings, manage their profiles, search posting archives, and find out more about the community of other people using the network.
YeTi is different from other poster touchscreen networks in that it was the first to support multiple channels of content. Also, where other touchscreen networks support informal communication between employees, YeTi is meant for more formal communication between corporate entities. Content is posted by corporate officers with proper authorization. Channel buttons let you browse by category. Logos link to corporate websites. Maps of California and Japan link to travel information.
Jonathan Helfman designed the user interfaces for the touchscreen and the Web pages. Helfman created the logo, icons, buttons, and maps in Illustrator and Photoshop, wrote the HTML, JavaScript, JSPs, and several of the Java Bean methods that query the MySql database to return information about YeTi members and their posted content.
Jonathan Helfman, “A Visual Tour of the YeTi Touchscreen and Website User Interface Design,” textual submission for the DIS 2004 Design Award Competition, 2.6M pdf.
