From Space to Stage: How Interactive Screens Will Change Urban Life

Motivating participation and improving quality of contribution in ubiquitous crowdsourcing

“…One may expect these moments to occur when citizens confront a public display in a city and are given the possibility to leave instant feedback about a locally remarkable and topical issue that invades their territory. Public displays also foster sociality and group use by nature [37], and eliciting contribution from groups of users is often easier than from individuals [28]. Further, the well-known honeypot effect [5] can be leveraged to our advantage in spreading awareness about the feedback channel among nearby potential users.…”

Analysing Pedestrian Traffic Around Public Displays

“…Kuikkaniemi discusses how large displays in public spaces can transform the space around the display into a stage [8]. Reeves et al explore the role of spectators in interaction, discussing how the visibility of manipulations and the resulting effects influences the spectator experience [11].…”

Traces

“…Existing research often uses conventional screens, such as LCD monitors attached to walls, to display higher level attributes of an activity (such as finding others with particular skills in a co-working space [4,25], or communicating specific events in a shared space [23,37,49]). These often suffer from display blindness, where the display is not noticed or 'filtered out' [28,31].…”

“…Other work is more explicit in representing higher-level activities, such as through noticeboards or forums [23,27,37,49], or by supporting connection between people based on common or needed skills in co-working spaces [4,25]. However, these often constrain understanding of the space to those high-level activities.…”