Campus knights

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 (New York) allow for presentation of over 16, 000 square feet of digital media. However, despite decades of research into pervasive displays, the problem of scheduling content is under-served and there is little forward momentum in addressing the challenges brought with large-scale and open display networks. This paper presents the first comprehensive architectural model for scheduling in current and anticipated pervasive display systems. In contrast to prior work, our three-stage model separates out the process of high level goal setting from content filtering and selection. Our architecture is motivated by an extensive review of the literature and a detailed consideration of requirements. The architecture is realised with an implementation designed to serve the world's largest and longest-running research testbed of pervasive displays. A mixed-methods evaluation confirms the viability of the architecture from three angles: demonstrating capability to meet the articulated requirements, performance that comfortably fits within the demands of typical display deployments, and evidence of its ability to serve as the day-to-day scheduling platform for the previously described research testbed. Based on our evaluation and a reflection on paper as a whole, we identify ten implications that will shape future research and development in pervasive display scheduling.

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“…[40,43,54,57]), compelling narratives (e.g. [2,88,92]) and interactive content (e.g. [37,39,56,65,90]).…”

Section: Requirements For Scheduling In Pervasive Display Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Scheduling Content in Pervasive Display Systems

Clinch

Mikusz

Elhart

et al. 2019

Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol.

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City knights: Spatial realism and memorability of virtual game scenes in pervasive gameplay

Alavesa

Pakanen

Voroshilov

et al. 2017

2017 9th International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Games for Serious Applications (VS-Games)

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Abstract-Realistic 3D city models are gaining popularity and becoming increasingly available. Correspondingly, pervasive games such as Pokemon GO are becoming widely popular. The use of realistic virtual environments in serious applications has been studied from the point of view of spatial memorability, yet the use of realistic virtual environments in the context of pervasive location based games is still unexplored. We assess the impact of spatial realism on the memorability of virtual environments in pervasive gameplay with a pervasive role-playing game City Knights. We conducted a field trial with 13 participants involving virtual environments in three conditions, where the spatial similarity to the access points of the virtual environments varied. Our findings indicate that spatial similarity is one of the qualities affecting the memorability of virtual environments. We suggest that this knowledge can be exploited in designing smoother transitions between virtual and physical environments in pervasive games.

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