Experiences from the long-term deployment of multipurpose interactive public displays in a
city center Page 1 Experiences from the long-term deployment of multipurpose interactive …

Most studies take for granted the critical first steps that prelude interaction with a public
display: awareness of the interactive affordances of the display, and enticement to interact …

This study is the first attempt to investigate altruistic use of interactive public displays in
natural usage settings as a crowdsourcing mechanism. We test a non-paid crowdsourcing …

This study focuses on the appropriation process of two public computing infrastructures in
the City of Oulu, Finland, a municipal WiFi network and large interactive displays. We …

We describe an approach for developing a campus-wide sensor network using commodity
single board computers. We sketch various use cases for environmental sensor data, for …

Ubiquitous crowdsourcing, or the crowdsourcing of tasks in settings beyond the desktop, is
attracting interest due to the increasing maturity of mobile and ubiquitous technology, such …

We present Ubinion, a service that utilizes large public interactive displays to enable young
people to give personalized feedback on municipal issues to local youth workers. It also …

This paper presents a perspective on the role immersive technologies can play in the future
of urban transformation. Specifically, this paper looks to answer the following questions …

In this paper we will present studies aimed at uncovering the attitudes, needs, and
expectations people have towards novel types of urban computing technologies deployed in …

As civic participation is declining in western societies, emerging technologies offer novel
opportunities for outreach activities. This chapter presents a series of incremental studies of …