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 …

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 …

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

Research is increasingly highlighting the potential for situated crowdsourcing to overcome
some crucial limitations of online crowdsourcing. However, it remains unclear whether a …

Access to the internet and digital technology are reported determinants and enablers of
social capital and community resilience. However, despite rural areas facing ecological …

HCI research surrounding death has largely focused to an individual's digital remains, with
relatively less attention paid to physical memorials, such as graves. We present a prototype …

This paper addresses graveyards as a context for designing interactive technology,
especially pervasive displays and the presentation of information related to graves and the …

We present a study that quantifies the effect of cold temperature on smartphone input
performance, particularly on tapping tasks. Our results show that smartphone input …

Our built environment is becoming increasingly equipped with public displays, many of
which are networked and share the same physical location. In spite of their ubiquitous …