Dipartimento dell'Innovazione Industriale e Digitale
Ingegneria Chimica, Gestionale, Informatica, Meccanica
Giovedì 10 novembre 2016, alle ore 10 in aula C330 (III piano Presidenza Scuola
Politecnica, viale delle Scienze, edificio 7),
il prof. Florian Alt,
del Group for Media Informatics presso la Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität di
Monaco di Baviera (LMU Munich), terrà un seminario dal titolo:
Wave, Touch, Look!
—
Novel interaction modalities for large public displays
Il seminario sarà tenuto in Inglese ed è orientato a tutti gli interessati
all’argomento, per scopi di studio, di ricerca e applicativi.
Di seguito l’abstract del seminario e un breve CV del dott. Alt. Si prega di
diffondere l’invito a tutti coloro che possono essere interessati.
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Abstract
Fueled by
falling display hardware costs and rising demand, digital signage and pervasive
displays are becoming ever more ubiquitous. Such systems have traditionally been
used for advertising and information dissemination with digital signage
commonplace in shopping malls, airports and public spaces. While advertising and
broadcasting announcements remain important applications, developments in
sensing and interaction technologies are enabling entirely new classes of
display applications that tailor content to the situation and audience of the
display. As a result, signage systems are beginning to transition from simple
broadcast systems to rich platforms for communication and interaction.
In the
first part of this workshop we provide an introduction to this emerging field.
We will start by looking at different models that explain how people act in the
vicinity of public displays. Next, we will talk about how people can be engaged
to interact with such displays. In particular, we will discuss how the attention
of the audience can be captured, how the interactivity of displays can be
communicated, and how people can be motivated to participate. The lecture
concludes with a brief overview of different techniques suitable for interaction
with large displays in public space.
The
second part of the workshop will provide an overview of our current research
activity on gaze interaction in public space. At the outset we will introduce
state-of-the-art approaches to enabling interaction with public displays using
one’s eyes. We will then present several case studies that deal with challenges
display providers are facing as they entice users to gaze-interact in public
space. In particular, we will focus on user positioning, calibration, movement,
as well as on multi-user scenarios.
Florian's Short
bio
Florian Alt is a professor in the Group for Media Informatics at the LMU Munich since October 2013. His research interests are at the crossroads of pervasive computing and HCI. He is particularly interested in ubiquitous interactive systems with a focus on interaction with large displays in public spaces as well as with usable privacy and security. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Stuttgart and a diploma in media informatics from the LMU Munich. Between 2008 and 2012 he was a research associate at the University of Duisburg-Essen and later at the University of Stuttgart, where he finished his dissertation on “A Design Space for Pervasive Advertising on Public Displays”. Further appointments include a job as web developer for Pinnacle Systems (Mountain View, US) and as IT specialist for Schreiner MediPharm LP (New York, US). He was a visiting researcher at the Telekom Innovation Labs (TU Berlin, 2011) as well as a guest lecturer for Pervasive Computing (University of Duisburg-Essen, 2012) and Unconventional User Interaction (University of Linz, 2013). Florian is the PC Chair for ACM Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia 2016 and previously chaired the program committee of the ACM Symposium on Pervasive Displays 2015. He is co-author on a Synthesis Lecture textbook on “Pervasive Displays - Understanding the Future of Digital Signage”.