Unobtrusiveness has been highlighted as an important design principle in Human-
Computer Interaction (HCI). However, the understanding of unobtrusiveness in the literature …

Fueled by falling display hardware costs and rising demand, digital signage and pervasive
displays are becoming ever more ubiquitous. Such systems have traditionally been used for …

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 …

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 …

Public displays are widely used for displaying information in public space, such as shop**
centres. They are typically programmed to display advertisements or general information …

As public displays continue to deliver increasingly private and personalized content, there is
a need to ensure that only the legitimate users can access private information in sensitive …

In this paper, we report on the design, development, and deployment of an interactive
shop** display at a major European airport. The ability to manufacture displays in arbitrary …

There is increasing interest in using digital signage to deliver highly personalised content.
However, display personalization presents a number of architectural design challenges in …

How might we use smartphones to interact with the next generation of pervasive public-
display systems? The author discusses using smartphones to let users customize and …

In this paper, we propose E-Shadow, a distributed mobile phone-based local social
networking system. E-Shadow has two main components:(1) Local profiles. They enable E …