Purpose The purpose of this research is to study how current research reports reflect on
using public displays in the smart city. In particular, it looks at the state-of-the-art of this …

Citizen sensing is an approach that develops and uses lightweight technologies with local
communities to collect, share and act upon data. In doing so it enables them to become …

We investigate opportunities and challenges of running virtual reality (VR) studies remotely.
Today, many consumers own head-mounted displays (HMDs), allowing them to participate …

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 …

Although emergency services have already recognized the importance of citizen-initiated
activities during disasters, still questions with regard to the coordination of spontaneous …

Field studies on public displays can be difficult, expensive, and time-consuming. We
investigate the feasibility of using virtual reality (VR) as a test-bed to evaluate deployments …

HCI projects are increasingly evaluating technologies in the wild, which typically involves
working with communities over extended periods, often with the goal of effecting sustainable …

This paper describes the design and evaluation of our Media Ribbon, a large public
interactive display for browsing hierarchical information, with mid-air gestures. Browsing a …

The civic potential of pervasive computing technologies has been increasingly explored
within academic and urban planning communities. One vision is of communities and cities …

HCI researchers have begun to more systematically study non-digital transient approaches
for displaying information in public space, for example, in the form of chalk infographics …