Next-Generation Interactive Public Displays

斯旺西市和县理事会正在着手对斯旺西中心进行重大重建，作为最近城市交易投资计划的一部分。理事会及其合作伙伴RivingtonHark对整个空间的广泛数字公共参与感兴趣。拟议的研究将探索物理和数字方式，在整个新空间（以及可能更广泛的城市）提供互动体验。因此，它直接关系到CDT的数字经济挑战背景。预期影响拟议的项目将在研究和理事会方面产生影响。研究成果自然包括出版物，但公众参与和共同创造工作将产生进一步的影响，这将是项目的核心部分。那里的公民也将从工作中得到有形的产出，例如将创建的物理装置。虽然该项目自然会涉及在不同的保真度/准备阶段创建原型，但理事会方面的一个关键目标是交付遗留产出-即部署（例如，装置），比研究项目寿命长，并具有长期的影响。为了支持这一点，所有的输出（例如，设计，源代码，施工图等）将与理事会共享，并在可能的情况下理想地开放源代码。科学博士建议与公共显示器的互动是一个具有悠久历史和重大兴趣的研究课题（例如，[1]）。然而，大多数现有的研究关注的是与单个安装的交互。这个博士项目将探索一系列公共空间的参与，可以自动组成和连接，以提供互动和个性化的体验时，互动分布在整个位置（无论是建筑/地方规模，甚至城市中心规模）。术语“显示器”也被松散地解释-例如，这项研究的一个产出可能是使用户能够建立交互式数字旅程的组件，该旅程涉及诸如语音设备、屏幕、非数字元素甚至交互式机器人等系统，这些系统可以在他们的城市旅程中以不同的方式使用。斯旺西市和县理事会目前正在着手对斯旺西中心进行大规模的重建。该重建项目包括一个3,500个容量的竞技场、公园和住宅/办公/零售空间，所有这些都可用作在项目过程中进行研究部署的测试地点。该项目有三个主要目标：开发、实施和评估一系列使用一系列不同模式的互动公共“展示”（即，不仅仅是视觉上的）在不同的地方探索提供遍布空间的连接和连贯的数字交互的方式，如果可能的话，在适当的地方建立在多个参与点上（而不是，例如，以社区参与和共同创造为基础，最终目标是创建一个传统的互动和互联系统，该系统的寿命超过博士学位的期限。

The City and County of Swansea Council are embarking on a major redevelopment of Swansea Central as part of the recent City Deal investment programme. The Council, and their partner RivingtonHark, are interested in a wide range of digital public engagements throughout the space.The proposed research will explore physical and digital ways to provide interactive experiences throughout this new space (and potentially the wider city beyond). As such, it directly relates to the Digital Economy challenge contextof the CDT.IntendedImpactThe proposed project will deliver impact both in research and for the Council. Research outputs will naturally include publications, but there will be further impacts from the public engagement and co-creation work that will be a core part ofthe project. Citizens of There will also be tangible outputs from the work, such as the physical installations that will be created. While the project will naturally involve creating prototypes in various stages of fidelity/readiness, a key aim from the Council side is to deliver legacy outputs -that is, deployments (e.g., installations) that outlive the research project and have long-lastingimpact. To support this, all of the outputs (e.g., designs, source code, construction diagrams etc) will be shared with the Council, and ideally made open-source where possible.ScientificPhDProposalInteraction with public displays is a research topic with a long history, and significant interest (e.g., [1]). However, the majority of existing research concerns interactions with a single installation. This PhD project will explore a range of public space engagements that can be automatically composed and connected to provide an interactive and personalised experience when interactions are spread over a whole location (whether building/locality scale or perhaps even city-centre scale). The term "displays" is also interpreted loosely -forexample, one output of this research might be components that enable the user to build up an interactive digital journey that involves systems such as speech appliances, screens, non-digital elements and perhaps even interactive robots that can be used in different ways throughout their journey around the city.As outlined above, the City and County of Swansea Council are currently embarking on a major redevelopment of Swansea Central. The redevelopment project includes a 3,500 capacity arena, park and residential/office/retail space, all of which are available to be used as test locations for the research deployments that will take place over the course of the project.The project has three key aims:To develop, implement and evaluate a series of interactive public "displays" using a range of different modalities (i.e., not just visual) in different placesTo explore ways of providing connected and coherent digital interactions spread throughout a space that, if possible, build on multiple engagement points where appropriate (rather than, e.g., gamifying by instrumenting the user.To be grounded in community engagement and co-creation, ultimately aiming to create a legacy interactive and interconnected system that outlives the duration of the PhD