Next-Generation Interactive Public Displays

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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