Category: Public Displays
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Awarea: Taking RFID to the Streets
Around 1997, I shifted my research focus from artificial intelligence to ubiquitous computing, and started exploring — and working with others to create examples of — what I called active environments: physical spaces that can sense and respond in contextually appropriate ways to their inhabitants. One of the things I learned from my AI research…
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Another Interrelativity Milestone: Helping People Relate at a Holiday Party
Washburn Communication invited Interrelativity to deploy a proactive display at their holiday party at the Civica Office Commons in Bellevue yesterday. I live (and work) for these deployments — it was great to have an opportunity to insert this social technology into a fabulous place like Civica and among so many interesting people! About 25…
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Proactive Displays: Ready to Roll
The plasma display cart arrived on Friday, so I was able to assemble all the pieces for a fully operational proactive display over the weekend. I took a photo to commemorate this milestone: Now on to the business of generating business (!).
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The Re-emergence of Interrelativity
After months of seclusion, Interrelativity, Inc., is finally ready to re-emerge and open up to new business opportunities. By way of brief background: Interrelativity designs, develops and deploys proactive display applications, software that runs on computers connected to large displays and sensors (e.g., RFID readers) that detect people nearby and show visual content that is…
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More Community Displays in Cafes
Shortly after my last post about the community display at Common Grounds Coffee Company in Woodinville, I visited C. C. Espresso in Duvall and discovered another collection of community displays (photos of members of a community — in this case, customers — on a posterboard). An interesting variation is their "Customer of the Month" display…
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Community Displays at Common Grounds Coffee Company
There’s a great little drive-up espresso stand that recently opened down the road with a friendly and outgoing proprietor (Stephanie) and tasty organic espresso (Kalani). Another feature I like about the place are the low-tech community displays — photos of customers snapped by Stephanie that she’s mounted on cardboard and placed in the windows of…
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Alphabet Billboard Cambridge: One Week of Fame via Cameraphones
Alphabet Billboard Cambridge (ABC) is a 7.5-meter electronic display that shows images submitted by residents of Cambridge, UK, via cameraphones. Each week for a 3-year period, one resident is given a cameraphone and offered the opportunity to submit as many photos as he or she wishes during that period; the participants are chosen according to…
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Photo Tote Bag: Plausibly Ignorable Revelation in the Physical World
Friends from Illinois were visiting this weekend; Joanie had a photo tote bag with five photos of her family nearly covering one side of the bag. She said she got it primarily to remind herself [regularly] of what is really important in life, but it has also resulted in several unexpected but welcome conversation opportunities…
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Artful Displays
The Seattle Weekly has an article this week about how displaying art on computer monitors — large and small (well, medium-size) — is making a comeback … or perhaps a grand debut. I’m particularly interested in the GalleryPlayer service provided by RGB Labs: RGB Labs‘ business is to provide a subscription service of changing "galleries"…