Re: Digital Signage

Hi Alan,

At 14:07 -0800 2007-12-17, Alan Willcuts wrote:
>We would like to display web content to one or more plasma screens
>on the same subnet in one of our facilities. Has anyone had any
>experience implementing a similar setup?

   EECS is looking into digital signage, perhaps using LCD displays
(below). From what I understand, the Haas School of Business is also
at some stage of looking into either kiosks, digital signage, or both.

   Finally, contacts for people at two other UC campuses who spoke at
an August 2007 UC-wide conference about digital signage and
touchscreen kiosks are also appended below. UC Merced, in
particular, may be using plasma displays for signage.

Aron Roberts
Information Services and Technology

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At 12:16 -0700 2007-10-30, Christopher Brooks wrote:
>The EECS Department is working towards displaying calendar items like
>seminars on a large LCD on second floor of Cory Hall. We plan on
>pulling calendar info from the campus calendar via an rss feed. I'd
>be interested to hearing if anyone has done something similar

At 12:51 -0700 2007-10-30, Aron Roberts wrote:
> At the most recent UC-wide computing service conference (UCCSC)
>this summer, reps from at least two other UC campuses mentioned
>similar "event kiosks" in their campus reports.

   From my UCCSC notes, here's a link to two bookmarks that in turn
provide some background on digital signage and touchscreen kiosk
systems for displaying updated feeds of campus events, such as
courses and workshops, at UC Merced and at the UC Davis School of
Veterinary Medicine, respectively.

   http://del.icio.us/aronr/signage

   The UC Merced link in those bookmarks takes you to a specific point
in the podcast of the UCCSC campus reports, courtesy of my colleague
Rick Jaffe's vTagIt! service, in which Greg Fallin states that "the
majority" of buildings at Merced have plasma displays used for
digital signage.

   Greg's contact info (for UC Merced) is at:
   http://directory.ucmerced.edu/expand.cfm?mail=gfellin@ucmerced.edu

   The PDF of the Sutter Award submission for the VIPER project at UC
Davis contains names and (for the submitters) contact info for people
involved in the that project, including those who worked on the
course/event kiosk. The two submitters listed here are
administrators, and perhaps some of the project staff listed in that
PDF might be more appropriate direct contacts:

Jan E. Ilkiw, BVSc., Ph.D. Associate Dean for Academic Programs
School of Veterinary Medicine Dean's Office University of
California, Davis 1 Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616 Ph: 530-752-1324
jeilkiw_at_ucdavis.edu

Raymond Y. Tai Director - Computing and Technology Services School
of Veterinary Medicine Dean's Office University of California, Davis
1 Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616 Ph: 530-752-7002 rytai_at_ucdavis.edu

 
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Received on Mon Dec 17 2007 - 14:25:10 PST