IBM Almaden Research Center's BlueBoard Project 1 September, 2001

     The BlueBoard project was developed at IBM ARC by Dr. Daniel M. Russell (Senior Manager, IBM), Dr. Rich Gossweiler (research scientist, IBM) and Jong Hee Kang (summer intern, Ph.D. candidate, Washington University) to explore computer interfaces in public spaces. Its initial, primary goal was to support easy, rapid access to individual information and information-sharing through light-weight, shoulder-to-shoulder collaboration. This video was an ad hoc capture of the state of BlueBoard around January, 2001. 

     Blueboard's initial development was so successful that a version of it was installed in the main lobby of the IBM Watson Research Lab, and later, was requested for installation in IBM CEO Lou Gerstner's boardroom.

On the Design of Personal & Communal Large Information Scale Appliances, Daniel M. Russell and Rich Gossweiler, UbiCom '01, October, 2001. Word Document (243KB),  HTML. 

Distributed and Disappearing User Interfaces in Ubiquitous Computing, Beverly Harrison and Rich Gossweiler, SIGCHI 2001 Workshop, 2001. pdf (29 KB)