The lay of the land: techniques for displaying discrete and continuous content on a spherical display

Sphericaldisplays afford social interaction, where users can crowd around the display to explore content together. Related work has explored different aspects of public display interaction, but the distribution and layout of content is often ignored by researchers and users alike. We present VenueFinder , an interactive sphericaldisplay that provided information about concert venuesduring a city-wide music festival. We deployed VenueFinder in a comparative evaluation using three techniques to distribute content on the sphericaldisplay; map based, linear, and distributed. We deployed the display in a concert hall for six days per condition for a total of eighteen days. The results showed that the linear condition resulting in the longest interaction times and largest proportion of touches for content viewing. Based on our results, we propose three design recommendations for content distribution on sphericaldisplays.