Like Solving a Giant Puzzle: Supporting Collaborative Scheduling at a Film Festival

In collaborative scheduling tasks, large surfaces are often crucial. Pin&Play is a novel technology that combines physical and digital information on an interactive pin-board, which can improve collaborative scheduling. In order to explore this and to develop a prototype, we conducted observations of the scheduling of a film festival program. We found that several tasks in the scheduling are demanding and time consuming, which could be improved with technology. More findings as well as some design implications will be presented below.