The phrase" in-the-wild" is becoming popular again in the field of human-computer
interaction (HCI), describing approaches to HCI research and accounts of user experience …

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 …

Digital immersion is moving into public space. Interactive screens and public displays are
deployed in urban environments, malls, and shop windows. Inner city areas, airports, train …

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 …

This study investigates the effectiveness of a humanoid service robot (HSR) versus a tablet
service kiosk (TSK) along the stages of the point-of-sale (POS) conversion funnel. The …

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 …

Can ubiquitous technologies be designed to nudge people to change their behavior? If so,
how? We describe an ambient installation that was intended to help people decide-and to …

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 …

After years in the lab, interactive public displays are finding their way into public spaces,
shop windows, and public institutions. They are equipped with a multitude of sensors as well …

Interconnected computational devices in the Internet of Things (IoT) context make possible
to collect real-time data about a specific environment. The IoT paradigm can be exploited …