Exploring pervasive displays for cemeteries and memorial sites

Pervasive Displays 2013

L ow-cost public displays are growing in popularity, appearing in our workplaces, in public spaces, and on university campuses. However, due to their pervasiveness, they present many challenges: How do people encounter public displays? What are the key usability and design factors when creating and deploying applications for such displays? How do local communities adopt pervasive displays, and ...

Pervasive Displays 2014

Management of Pervasive Displays

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Survey Paper: Pervasive Displays for Information Presentation

Weiser’s seminal vision of ubiquitous computing had calm information presentation at its heart and identified an important challenge in providing pervasive yet unobtrusive information display while avoiding problems of information overload. Since this vision was first articulated, a range of approaches have emerged for presenting information on pervasive displays and digital screens of varying ...

Iron Age Cemeteries and Hiisi Sites: Is There a Connection?

This article discusses the Finnish hiisi sites which were listed in the 1967 doctoral thesis of the linguist Mauno Koski. Based on place names, Koski associated 14 Iron Age cemeteries with hiisi sites. Cup-marked stones, sacred trees and springs which have been found in the vicinity of these hiisi sites also seem to imply a connection between cemeteries and cult locations or sacred places. This...