PDAs and shared public displays: Making personal information public, and public information personal

Personal-Public Displays: Motivating Behavior Change through Ambient Information and Social Pressure

Our research investigates how public displays of personal information can be used to motivate behavior change. We describe six characteristics that are important for such information displays to embody. These build on two well-established methods for motivating behavior: presenting pertinent information at the point-of-decision and leveraging social pressure. To investigate how these personal-p...

SimSense: Gestural Interaction Design for Information Exchange between Large Public Displays and Personal Mobile Devices

Mobile Information and Large Public Displays

Much research in the large public display and mobile device area is focused on the synchronous use of the two platforms. Furthermore, there is an emphasis on interaction with content explicitly authored or generated for the large display context. By way of contrast, we present a prototype that displays information previously captured from mobiles of users unconcerned with how their content woul...

Public Versus Personal Information for Mate Copying in an Invertebrate

Organisms require information to make decisions about fitness-affecting resources, such as mates. Animals may extract "personal information" about potential mates by observing their physical characteristics or extract additional "public information" by observing their mating performance [1]. Mate copying by females [2-6] is a form of public information use that may reduce uncertainty about male...

Public Transport Ontology for Passenger Information Retrieval

Passenger information aims at improving the user-friendliness of public transport systems while influencing passenger route choices to satisfy transit user’s travel requirements. The integration of transit information from multiple agencies is a major challenge in implementation of multi-modal passenger information systems. The problem of information sharing is further compounded by the multi-l...