Supporting content scheduling on situated public displays

Storz, Oliver; Friday, Adrian; Davies, Nigel

doi:10.1016/j.cag.2006.07.002

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“…In recent years a trend towards largescale deployments with a mixture of centralised and distributed components is increasingly common [22,20]. The e-Campus [22] deployment provided an early example with approximately twenty-five screens deployed on the Lancaster University campus. Scheduling control was partially provided by a centralised service but also distributed to the display nodes themselves, allowing them to also accept scheduling requests from other services.…”

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et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing

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As the cost of display hardware falls so the number of public display networks being deployed is increasing rapidly. While these networks have traditionally taken the form of digital signage used for advertising and information there is increasing interest in the vision of "open display networks" [8]. A key component of any open display network is an effective channel for disseminating applications created by third-parties and recent research has proposed a display-oriented "application store" as one such channel [5]. In this paper we present a critical analysis of the requirements and design of display application stores -providing insights designed to help the implementers of future application stores.

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“…For example, although commercial signage systems have evolved to incorporate conditional statements and constraints, such systems typically feature sophisticated user interfaces that may be overly cumbersome for non-expert users. Similarly, research platforms such as e-Campus have provided constraint-based scheduling for expert users (in this case, taking the form of an API for Python programming [83]), but the subsequent user interfaces have abstracted away much of this fine-grained control [35].…”

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Scheduling Content in Pervasive Display Systems

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Elhart

et al. 2019

Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol.

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Digital displays are a ubiquitous feature of public spaces; London recently deployed a whole network of new displays in its Underground stations, and the screens on One Time Square (New York) allow for presentation of over 16, 000 square feet of digital media. However, despite decades of research into pervasive displays, the problem of scheduling content is under-served and there is little forward momentum in addressing the challenges brought with large-scale and open display networks. This paper presents the first comprehensive architectural model for scheduling in current and anticipated pervasive display systems. In contrast to prior work, our three-stage model separates out the process of high level goal setting from content filtering and selection. Our architecture is motivated by an extensive review of the literature and a detailed consideration of requirements. The architecture is realised with an implementation designed to serve the world's largest and longest-running research testbed of pervasive displays. A mixed-methods evaluation confirms the viability of the architecture from three angles: demonstrating capability to meet the articulated requirements, performance that comfortably fits within the demands of typical display deployments, and evidence of its ability to serve as the day-to-day scheduling platform for the previously described research testbed. Based on our evaluation and a reflection on paper as a whole, we identify ten implications that will shape future research and development in pervasive display scheduling.

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“…primarily researchers, but also members of staff, and students) to create applications that can control the presentation of content on the e-Campus displays. The software infrastructure is divided into two parts: a low-level software infrastructure and API [25] that offers precise and immediate control over the presentation of content on the e-Campus displays; and a high-level, constraintbased scheduling service and API that offers an easy-to-use mechanism for requesting content to be shown based on the specification of constraints.…”

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Using bluetooth device names to support interaction in smart environments

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Newman

et al. 2009

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services

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An increasing trend in mobile and pervasive computing is the augmentation of everyday public spaces with local computation -leading to so called smart environments. However, there are no well accepted techniques for supporting spontaneous interaction between mobile users and these smart environments, though a wide range of techniques have been explored ranging from gesture recognition to downloading applications to a user's phone. In this paper we explore an approach to supporting such interaction based on the use of Bluetooth Device (user-friendly) Names as a control channel between users' mobile phones and computational resources in their local environment. Such an approach has many advantages over existing techniques though it is not without limitations. Our work focuses specifically on the use of Device Names to control and customize applications on large public displays in a campus environment. This paper describes our basic approach, a number of applications that we have constructed using this technique and the results of our evaluation work which has included a range of user studies and field trials. The paper concludes with an assessment of the viability of using our approach for interaction scenarios involving mobile users and computationally rich environments.

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Supporting content scheduling on situated public displays

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