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Situated Web Portal for Local Awareness and Transient Interaction

Tags: information sharing, computing, infrastructure

Overview When used as part of a larger ubiquitous computing infrastructure, public displays have a great potential for enriching transitional spaces. They can enable brief encounters with information that is relevant for their specific situation, improving local awareness, promoting information sharing and enabling new and much engaging user experiences. The research presented in this paper introduces the concept of situated portal as being a web portal of situational relevant information, targeted for the public display and using large screens or wall projections,. This paper briefly describes the architecture of the system, the initial prototype and the early results.

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Publisher: University of Minho
File Format: PDF
Date Published: Dec 4, 2008
Format: White Papers
Topics: Portals, Software Engineering

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