Next-Generation Interactive Public Displays

作为最近City Deal投资计划的一部分，斯旺西市县议会正着手对斯旺西中心进行一项重大的重新开发。议会及其合作伙伴RivingtonHark对整个空间内广泛的数字公共活动感兴趣。拟议的研究将探索物理和数字方式，以在整个新空间(以及潜在的更广泛的城市)提供互动体验。因此，它与CDT的数字经济挑战直接相关。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作工作将产生进一步的影响，这将是该项目的核心部分。市民也将从这项工作中获得切实的成果，例如将创建的实物设施。虽然该项目自然涉及在保真度/准备状态的不同阶段创建原型，但安理会的一个关键目标是提供遗留产出--即比研究项目持续时间更长并具有长期影响的部署(例如安装)。为了支持这一点，所有的输出(例如，设计、源代码、施工图等)都将与委员会共享，并且在可能的情况下最好是开源的。然而，现有的大多数研究都是关于单一安装的交互作用。这个博士项目将探索一系列公共空间活动，这些公共空间活动可以自动组合和连接，以提供互动和个性化的体验，当互动分布在整个地点(无论是建筑/地点尺度，甚至是城市中心尺度)时。“显示器”一词的解释也很松散--例如，这项研究的一个结果可能是使用户能够建立互动数字旅程的组件，其中包括语音设备、屏幕、非数字元素甚至互动机器人等系统，这些系统可以在城市周围的旅程中以不同的方式使用。如上所述，斯旺西市县议会目前正在对斯旺西中心进行重大重新开发。重建项目包括一个可容纳3,500人的竞技场、公园和住宅/办公/零售空间，所有这些都可用作将在项目过程中进行的研究部署的测试地点。该项目有三个关键目标：开发、实施和评估在不同地点使用一系列不同模式(即，不仅仅是视觉)的一系列交互式公共“展示”探索在整个空间提供连接和连贯的数字互动的方法，如果可能，在适当的情况下建立在多个参与点上(而不是，例如，通过引导用户进行游戏化。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，其持续时间超过博士学位

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