Keynote and Presentations at PerDis 2018

By Mateusz Mikusz
PETRAS Research Associate

PETRAS researchers from Lancaster University have presented their latest research at the 7th ACM Symposium, held 6-8 June, on Pervasive Displays (PerDis 2018) in Munich, Germany in front of an audience of international researchers and professionals from the field of pervasive computing.

Nigel Davies, PETRAS PI, gave an invited keynote on “Saturated Display Environments”, articulating a vision in which shared, public displays become a truly ubiquitous part of our IoT infrastructure. Such a vision raises numerous potential security, privacy and trust concerns and the keynote focused on identifying future research opportunities in the fields of pervasive computing and pervasive displays.

In addition to the keynote, Mateusz Mikusz presented “Using Pervasive Displays to Aid Student Recall — Reflections on a Campus-Wide Trial“. This work formed the foundation and initial implementation for Tacita, a display personalization framework enhanced as part of DiSSC and ReCoPS that allows viewers to express their preferences and receive personalised content through the display network as they walk by IoT-enabled displays.

As part of the work presented at PerDis 2018 we reported on the use of IoT displays to support human memory augmentation and, in particular, on a trial that investigated the use of pervasive displays as part of an integrated learning environment to help students recall lecture content as they move across campus and walk by displays on their way to lectures, labs and colleges. This research was carried out as part of the PETRAS IoT Research Hub, PACTMAN, and the EU-funded FET FP7 project RECALL.

In the context of IoT display personalisation, Peter Shaw, Research Associate at Lancaster, demonstrated the underlying technology, including the Tacita mobile client and the display hardware and software, as part of the Posters and Demos session to attendees of PerDis 2018. This system is currently in daily operation at Lancaster, running on the e-Campus display testbed. The demonstration sparked discussions and opportunities for potential future collaborations with researchers from other international institutions.