Public display deployments are often subjected to various surprising and unwanted effects.
These effects are frequently due to external factors properties and phenomena that are …

Local governments struggle to engage time poor and seemingly apathetic citizens, as well
as the city's young digital natives, the digital locals. This project aims at providing a …

A growing body of research is looking at ways to bring the processes and benefits of online
deliberation to the places they are about and in turn allow a larger, targeted proportion of the …

Traditional public notice areas (PNAs) are nowadays a popular means to publicly exchange
information and reach people of a local community. The high usability led to a wide-spread …

Most studies take for granted the critical first steps that prelude interaction with a public
display: awareness of the interactive affordances of the display, and enticement to interact …

This study is the first attempt to investigate altruistic use of interactive public displays in
natural usage settings as a crowdsourcing mechanism. We test a non-paid crowdsourcing …

This study focuses on the appropriation process of two public computing infrastructures in
the City of Oulu, Finland, a municipal WiFi network and large interactive displays. We …

Lessons learned from building and deploying three experimental public display systems
have general app to many types of public ubicomp deployments. Lancaster University's e …

Falling hardware prices and ever more displays being connected to the Internet will lead to
large public display networks, potentially forming a novel communication medium. We …

Over the past decade and a half, corporations and academies have invested considerable
time and money in the realization of ubiquitous computing. Yet design approaches that yield …