Imprint, a community visualization of printer data

Zachary Pousman, Hafez Rouzati, John Stasko
2008 Proceedings of the ACM 2008 conference on Computer supported cooperative work - CSCW '08  
We introduce Imprint, a casual information visualization kiosk that displays data extracted from a printer queue. We designed the system to be open-ended, and to support a workgroup in reflection and conversation about the data. Imprint's visualizations depict environmental issues, such as energy consumption and paper consumption of the printers, as well as social information, such as popular concepts from the printed matter. Imprint is intended to spark reflection and conversation, and to
more » ... data into discussions about paper usage and "waste." Our goal is not to explicitly reduce paper, energy, or toner consumption, but instead to open conversations by community members. Our work highlights a design approach for semi-public displays of personal data.
doi:10.1145/1460563.1460568 dblp:conf/cscw/PousmanRS08 fatcat:ceinv57kfzbnlkoykybf5y55lq