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 …

In this paper we present our findings from a lab and a field study investigating how passers-
by notice the interactivity of public displays. We designed an interactive installation that uses …

Proxemics theory explains peoples' use of interpersonal distances to mediate their social
interactions with others. Within Ubicomp, proxemic interaction researchers argue that people …

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 …

Public interactive displays (PID) are a promising technology for providing information and
collecting feedback in public spaces. Research on PIDs has shown that, like all public …

In HCI, the honeypot effect describes how people interacting with a system passively
stimulate passers-by to observe, approach and engage in an interaction. Previous research …

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 …

In their influential book" Public space" Carr et al. describe essential human needs that public
spaces fulfill:(1) passive engagement with the environment, where we observe what others …

This study investigates shopper behavior when interacting with an employee-robot team (vs.
both actors in isolation), along the metrics of the POS conversion funnel. An unobtrusive field …