PosterBoard
Group Members
- Manasi Vartak <mvartak@mit.edu>
- Tristan Naumann <tjn@mit.edu>
- Chidube Ezeozue <cezeozue@mit.edu>
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Current poster boards (or bulletin boards) are static and have a low level of engagement with users, i.e., event goers. During a user study, we observed that over the period of an hour, only 4 students out of 30 passing a poster board in Stata actually glanced at it. Furthermore, only one of those four students (i.e. only 3.33% of the user population) stopped at the board for further inspection. The reason for lack of engagement with poster boards is three-fold: (1) the posters are poster board is not interactive and hence have has little use beyond the mere display of posters, (2) the lack of organization of posters makes it hard to find relevant information, and (3) even when a user finds a poster of interest, it is difficult to transfer the information from the poster into an electronic form. Similarly, currently there is little feedback event organizers can obtain just based on their posters. Unless there is an RSVP system, event organizers find it difficult to gauge interest for their event and estimate attendance.
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