Usage data and user interview/survey results were used to redesign the user-interfaces and implement new features that improved and stabilized the system. Jonathan Helfman led the redesign effort to simplify both the look and feel and the implementation. Recasting the GUI as a single Web page and style sheet allowed for simpler maintenance and more convenient customization. Helfman also extended the interface with an interactive strip of thumbnails of posted content. The thumbnail strip shows items that have recently been on view (to the left of center), the current item (in the center), and items that are about to come on view (to the right of center). Readers may select any thumbnail to display the associated posting. The thumbnail strip is also scrollable: a reader may select anywhere on the strip and flick their finger left or right to reveal other items in the presentation sequence.

Nelson, Churchill, Denoue, Helfman, and Murphy, “Gooey Interfaces: An Approach for Rapidly Repurposing Digital Content,” to appear in CHI 2004, 256K pdf.

Churchill, Nelson, Denoue, Helfman, and Murphy, “Sharing Multimedia Content with Interactive Public Displays: A Case Study,” to appear in DIS 2004, 791K pdf.

Churchill, Nelson, Denoue, Helfman, and Murphy, “The Plasma Poster Network: Social Hypermedia on Public Display;” to appear in Public and Situated Displays: Social and Interactional Aspects of Shared Display Technologies (eds. O’Hara, Perry, Churchill, and Russell), The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic, July, 2003, 912K pdf.