[kqr]

Genuinely curious: what's the point of this? If I'm trying to look at a specific dashboard, I would go directly to it and I wouldn't want it scrolling away from under me. If I'm not looking at a specific dashboard, why would I want them scrolling around in front of me?

[wpietri]

I'm with you. I absolutely hate rotating displays. If I look at it with intent, it's only going to be what I want 1/N of the time, meaning I'm wasting time N-1/N of the time.

And if it's just a general information radiator, as with a big wall display, I still want it to be stable, because a) it's better for developing a correlative understanding between different variables, and b) I want to train people to look at it with intent.

The only time it ever made sense to me was a) when displays were expensive, and b) people were going to anyhow be standing around with nothing to do. E.g., the decades-old BART LED-matrix signs rotate. I still hate it, but I get it. Now, though, displays are cheap, and at work, hopefully people have things to do!

[Dystopian]

I kind of get it.

I've definitely been on teams before which have investigated aggregating all of our metrics into Geckoboard to have posted up on TVs near our work areas.

These may be an interesting alternative since it gets rid of some of that integration portion and instead just shows the source and scrolls.

[YearsCal]

You are right, this is exactly we were thought about.

[YearsCal]

Our case is to rotate it in our open-space TV