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Digital Signs @ SPH

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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.

The signage utilizes non-interactive and interactive LCD screens that are strategically located in the SPH I and II lobbies, the SPH café, in each academic department, in the student lobby on the first floor of SPH I and in the open space on the second floor of SPH I.

More information on the UM digital signage initiative.

Interactive Signage and Wayfinding Stations

The 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.

Signs for Student Use

The 60" displays in the student lobby on the first floor of SPH I and in the open space on the second floor of SPH I are intended to serve four purposes:

1. As digital "bulletin boards" on which student organizations at SPH can post their announcements, fliers, and posters. Contact Emily Renda (erenda@umich.edu) to submit student organization content.
2. As displays for group work. They are equipped with HDMI cables - connecting those to your laptop will automatically switch the display to your laptop after about a second or two. Disconnecting the laptop will return the sign back to its original status.
3. As displays for school-wide announcements (the same content as in the Cafe).
4. For emergency notifications from DPS.

Please do not remove or the HDMI cables, so that another person can use it. After use, make sure that the cables are coiled safely under the monitor, so that they do not pose a tripping hazard. When doing group work, be mindful of other people working or studying nearby. HDMI cables carry sound, so keep it down or muted. Please try to limit your sessions to one hour.

Signage Content

The SPH Office of Communications develops and manages the content that appears on the signs. General content is fed to the signs from the SPH calendar of events. Please note that flyers cannot be fed to the interactive signs in the lobbies of SPH I and II.

Content submissions are welcome but may be rejected for the following reasons:

• Not sufficiently readable due to font size, layout, color, etc. (see below)
• Not of a landscape orientation, to maximize use of space
• No relevance to public health or the SPH community
• Insufficient information
• Barriers to participation (geographic, financial, or other)

Signage content must comply with the UM Standard practice Guide policy on Solicitations, Collections, and Donations.

Submitting Content

1. If you would like to have an event flyer displayed on our signs, please first check our calendar of events. If the event is not yet listed there, please submit the event. You will be given an opportunity to upload your event flyer after the event information is submitted.
2. If the event is already listed on our calendar, or if your flyer is not event-related, you can use our online flyer submission form to submit your flyer. You can also send it via email to sph.web@umich.edu.
3. If you have a private SPH event such as a board meeting that is not appropriate for the calendar of events but is appropriate for digital signage, please use our private event submission form .

Event flyers will be displayed no longer than 1 month prior to the event they advertise.

Flyers must be landscape-oriented (wider than they are tall). Portrait-oriented flyers do not work on our digital signs. Please be sure that you hold copyright to any images you submit for display. Also, please make sure the text is large enough to read at a distance. SPH Communications will be happy to help improve your flyer if needed.

We can accept the following file types:

• Acrobat (.pdf)
• Word (.doc or .docx)
• PowerPoint (.ppt or .pptx)
• Image (.gif, .png, .jpg, .psd)

Interactive sign in the SPH lobbies.