- Title
- Evaluating WaveWatch: an ambient display of web traffic
- Creator
- Shelton, Ben; Nesbitt, Keith
- Relation
- ACSW 2017: Australasian Computer Science Week 2017. Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference (Geelong, Vic. 30 January - 3 February, 2017)
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3014812.3014821
- Publisher
- ACM
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- Over the past two decades a number of public, real time visualization systems, referred to as Ambient Information Systems have been developed. These systems often have a focus on both aesthetics and information relevance while being intended to function in the periphery of a user's attention. In this paper we report on the evaluation of an Ambient Display known as WaveWatch. The WaveWatch display uses high-quality graphics and adopts a novel metaphor for visualizing variations in web traffic by representing the underlying dynamics with different levels of ocean wave activity. The abstract wave scene is intended to be informative but also provide a calming rather than distracting background in the work place. Here we report the results of a two-week in-situ deployment of the display. The results of this evaluation indicate the efficacy of the display in terms of our key design criteria, namely, aesthetics, business relevance of data, peripheral non-alarming operation and the overall utility of the display.
- Subject
- ambient information systems; ambient displays; informative art; calm computing
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1393351
- Identifier
- uon:33526
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781450347686
- Language
- eng
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