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SUMMARY:Reflections on the Long-term Use of an Experimental Digital Signag
 e System - Christos Efstratiou (University of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Eiko Yoneki
DESCRIPTION:This talk covers a piece of work that was developed as part of
  the e-Campus project at Lancaster University\, and was recently presented
  at Ubicomp 2011. \n\nIn this paper we reflect on our long-term experience
 s of developing\, deploying and supporting an experimental digital signage
  system. Existing public display systems almost always feature a single po
 int of control that is responsible for scheduling content for presentation
  on the network and provide sophisticated mechanisms for controlling play-
 out timing and relative ordering. Our experiences suggest that such comple
 x feature-sets are unnecessary in many cases and may be counter productive
  in signage systems. We describe an alternative\, simpler paradigm for enc
 ouraging widespread use of signage systems based on shared ‘content chan
 nels’ between content providers and display owners. Our system has been 
 in continuous use for approximately 3 years. We reflect and draw lessons f
 rom how our user community has adopted and used the resulting public displ
 ay network. We believe that these reflections will be of benefit to future
  developers of ubiquitous display networks.\n
LOCATION:FW26\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Builiding
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