The proliferation of public displays, along withubiquitous wireless communication and sensing technology; has made it possible to create a novel public communicationmedium: open networked pervasive displays would allowcitizens to provide their own content, appropriate close-bydisplays, and increase their own awareness of a display’ssurroundings and its local communities. We envision that suchdisplays ultimately can create interacting places, i.e., publicspaces that promote community interaction and placeawareness. In this paper we describe our Interacting PlacesFramework (IPF), which helps to identify challenges andopportunities in this novel research space. Our IPF has 4elements: 1) content providers, i.e., entities that supply content; 2) content viewers, i.e., people who consume the content; 3) anumber of interacting places communication channels thatsupport inclusive, i.e., open-for-everyone, and exclusive, i.e.,closed-group communication; and 4) an awareness diffusionlayer that promotes community interaction either explicitly, i.e.,through content tailored towards a specific audience, orimplicitly, by observing output for other people. We havebegun initial deployments examining this space and will use theframework presented here to analyze future results.    «

The proliferation of public displays, along withubiquitous wireless communication and sensing technology; has made it possible to create a novel public communicationmedium: open networked pervasive displays would allowcitizens to provide their own content, appropriate close-bydisplays, and increase their own awareness of a display’ssurroundings and its local communities. We envision that suchdisplays ultimately can create interacting places, i.e., publicspaces that promote community interaction...    »