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Colloquium

CategoryLecture
DateFriday, March 4, 2011
Time9:30 am
Concludes10:30 am
LocationGould-Simpson 906
DetailsLight refreshments in 9th floor atrium area - 9:15 a.m.
SpeakerNigel Davies
TitleBuilding a Global Display Network
AffiliationSchool of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University

Building a Global Display Network

Public displays are increasingly common with shopping malls, sports stadiums and city squares frequently feature large numbers of displays of varying size and complexity. However these displays are typically part of small isolated networks under a single management domain. Our group's aim is to create a single global network of displays that is open to new applications and content from many sources - a Global Display Network. In effect, we are looking to create the display equivalent of the Internet - a global medium for sharing information that is able to transform public spaces. In this talk I will focus on our ongoing work in the area of display appropriation and the infrastructure created and lessons learned from the e-campus project - a deployment of over 100 public displays at Lancaster that has been explicitly built as a research testbed for work on public display systems.

Biography

Nigel Davies is a Professor and Head of the School of Computing and Communications at Lancaster University. He has managed numerous projects at Lancaster, including the MOST, GUIDE and e-Campus projects, which have been widely reported on in the academic literature and the popular press. Nigel Davies was previously an Associate Professor at the University of Arizona and has held visiting positions at SICS, Sony's Distributed Systems Lab in San Jose, the Bonn Institute of Technology and ETH Zurich where he worked on public display systems. Nigel is active in the research community and has co-chaired both Unicomp and MobiSys conferences. He is the editor-in-chief of IEEE Pervasive Computing and chair of the steering committee for ACM HotMobile.