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Digital Signs @ SPH
The signage utilizes non-interactive and interactive LCD screens that are strategically located in the SPH I and II lobbies, the SPH café, and in each academic department. More information on the UM digital signage initiative. Interactive Signage and Wayfinding StationsThe school has two interactive signage/wayfinding stations, one in the lobby of SPH I and one in the SPH II lobby. By touching the screen, the user can access a directory of names and room numbers, building maps, an event listing, and even the day’s weather! For security reasons, rather than direct the user to individual offices, the wayfinding system will direct the user to the main office for the department. Signage ContentThe SPH Office of Communications develops and manages the content that appears on the signs. General content is "fed" to department signs, along with departmental event listings. Please note that content cannot be fed to the interactive signs in the lobbies of SPH I and II except via the event listings. Each department has designated liaisons to provide department-specific content for the signs. Academic departments can, if they prefer, manage their content themselves. Content submissions are welcome but may be rejected for the following reasons:
Signage content must comply with the UM Standard practice Guide policy on Solicitations, Collections, and Donations. Submitting ContentIf you would like to add content to a sign, please contact your departmental liaison or send email to sph.web@umich.edu. Recommended types of content are listed below. EventsEvents are displayed on the left sign of the signs. The source of these events is the SPH Calendar of Events. Please feel free to submit events to the calendar. If you would like to ensure that your event is displayed on one of the department signs, check the box associated with that department. ImagesImages can be added to the rotation on the right side of the signs. Landscape images (wider than they are tall) work better than portrait images (taller than they are wide). Please be sure that you hold copyright to any images you submit for display. PDFsPDF files can also be added to the rotation on the right side of signs. Like with images, landscape PDFs work better than portrait. Also please note that only the first page of multi-page PDFs will be displayed. PowerPoint FilesPowerPoint presentations also work well in the right-side sign rotation. Each slide in your PowerPoint presentation will be shown in order. Like with other files, landscape slides work better than portrait. VideosIt is also possible to add short videos to the right-side sign rotation. If your video is already published on the web (e.g., YouTube) you should send us the URL of the video. File Naming ConventionsIt will be most helpful to us if you include the date of the event at the beginning of the file name. For example: 11-30-12-toxicology-talk.pdf for a talk on toxicology to be given on November 30, 2012.
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An innovative digital signage system has been launched at the School of Public Health. There are multiple purposes for the new signage. Its primarily purpose is displaying SPH and university events, eliminating paper posters. It can also be activated to provide emergency notifications. In the future, the signs might even be used to interact with public devices of our own design such as video players, location-aware applications, and mobile devices. Indeed, this signage promises to be an excellent way to communicate with the people who are moving throughout SPH. Several units on campus have already implemented digital signage and have seen how it can promote an active and informed environment.
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