Toward emergent technology for blended public displays

  • Authors:
  • Angie Chandler;Joe Finney;Carl Lewis;Alan Dix

  • Affiliations:
  • Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom;Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom;Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom;Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Public displays are becoming increasingly commonplace, yet recent studies place the effectiveness and user acceptance of them into doubt. This paper motivates the need for a new class of display technology that can more effectively blend with its environment and introduces the concept of self-organizing emergent displays as a vehicle to achieving this. The paper goes on to briefly describe Firefly, a prototype emergent display system, and evaluate its scalability, effectiveness, and user acceptance through experimental analysis and a field trial.