A Situated Display for Local Community Participation: The Design and Use of Nnub

This paper discusses the design and use of a digital community noticeboard (called Nnub) located at a suburban general store. The intention is to design information and communication technology (ICT) such as situated displays and Internet technologies to support local communications. We use a reflective, agile, and iterative design (RAID) framework to evolve the technology, aiming to engage local residents in creating an evolving collection of images, notices and scribbles by the community and for the community. A key contribution of this work is the understanding of the interaction requirements needed to support and engage the local community that were discovered through the iterative design and deployment method.