Searching in CCTV: effects of organisation in the multiplex

摘要

CCTV control rooms. a A control room with separate monitors for each scene, separated by the frames of each monitor. b–d Control rooms with several large screens, each showing multiple camera feeds. Within the large monitors, individual feeds have no separation between them. The number of scenes per monitor varies considerably between the three examples shown: in d there are four camera feeds on every large monitor; in b there are 12 camera feeds per monitor and in c the number varies from 4 to 16 between monitors. Image sources: a Photograph taken by Kenneth C. Scott-Brown for Stainer, Scott-Brown and Tatler (2013), b–d publically available images downloaded from Google image search