Using mobile devices to personalize pervasive displays

Abstract

Personalising content on public displays can be achieved through many methods; recent work has often used the Bluetooth capabilities of mobile devices [6, 2]. However, power and privacy concerns may lead users to switch off the Bluetooth on their mobile devices, making them less useful for display personalisation. In this demonstration we show applications built using Tacita, an alternative method for allowing mobile users to make display personalisation requests. 2. DEMONSTRATION OVERVIEW We previously demonstrated Tacita at HotMobile [4] and Mobisys [1] 2012. The system is comprised of four components: 1) an Android application that allows viewers to define content preferences; 2) a display component that schedules and renders content onto a display; 3) a set of Web applications designed for rendering on public displays; and 4) a map provider, which provides a database of display locations and available applications [Figure 1].