Open display networks: A communications medium for the 21st century
Computer, 2012•ieeexplore.ieee.org
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Century Nigel Davies 1 , Marc Langheinrich 2 , Rui Jose 3 , Albrecht Schmidt 4 1 Lancaster
University, 2 University of Lugano, 3 University of Minho, 4 University of Stuttgart Abstract
Today’s public displays effectively disappear: people have become so accustomed to their low
utility that they ignore them. However, we believe that public displays of the 21st century should
not disappear, instead they should become the backbone of a new global communications …
Century Nigel Davies 1 , Marc Langheinrich 2 , Rui Jose 3 , Albrecht Schmidt 4 1 Lancaster
University, 2 University of Lugano, 3 University of Minho, 4 University of Stuttgart Abstract
Today’s public displays effectively disappear: people have become so accustomed to their low
utility that they ignore them. However, we believe that public displays of the 21st century should
not disappear, instead they should become the backbone of a new global communications …
Open public display networks could emerge as a new communications medium for the 21st century, but this transformation can only occur if the technology moves from its current, closed model to a new, open one.
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