Openbook is a room-booking application that resides on tablets mounted on the outside of conference rooms in an office environment. Openbook is connected to your office calendar and then sends visual cues to the tablets letting others know if the conference room is open for use or officially booked. Openbook allows anyone passing by to view who is in the meeting and what it pertains to, also allowing them to view available time slots to book that room all from the tablet.

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The name Openbook is playful in and of itself. It speaks to the function of it’s visual cues telling one if a room is open or booked. If the room is open, you can book it. Additionally, it’s an open book i.e. it tells you everything you need to know about a meeting in the past, present or future.

Borrowing a universal symbol, the stop light, it uses the ‘o’ and the ‘b’ vertically stacked to be the frames for the green and red lights.