The TV plays a central role in our homes, bringing friends and family together by providing a
common reference point for live, on-demand and interactive media. However, the …

To inform the design of cross-device applications, it is important to know what devices users
typically have within reach in various settings in the home, in the workplace and on the …

As the cost of display hardware falls so the number of public display networks being
deployed is increasing rapidly. While these networks have traditionally taken the form of …

Weiser's seminal vision of ubiquitous computing had calm information presentation at its
heart and identified an important challenge in providing pervasive yet unobtrusive …

Widespread sensing devices enable a world in which physical spaces become personalised
in the presence of mobile users. An important example of such personalisation is the use of …

Tracking the location of people and their mobile devices creates opportunities for new and
exciting ways of interacting with public technology. For instance, users can transfer content …

Digital display technology is facing considerable progress and large screens are
increasingly pervasive in our public environment. Most display systems exist as non …

Digital displays are a ubiquitous feature of public spaces; London recently deployed a whole
network of new displays in its Underground stations, and the screens on One Time Square …

Web applications are traditionally designed having in mind a server-centric architecture,
whereby the whole persistent data, dynamic state and logic of the application are stored and …

Authors' addresses: Mateusz Mikusz, Lancaster University, InfoLab21, Lancaster, UK, LA1
4WA, m. mikusz@ lancaster. ac. uk; Peter Shaw, Lancaster University, InfoLab21, Lancaster …