Intelligent Environments for Informal Public Spaces: the Ki/o Kiosk Platform
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The Ki/o Kiosk Project is a research effort to explore the potential applications for embedding computation in informal public spaces, such as hallways, building lobbies, and break areas. By deploying a prototype kiosk network, the ki/o Project identified challenges, requirements, and design criteria for designing kiosk Intelligent Environments, and fielded community reactions to the system. Thesis Supervisor: Howard E. Shrobe Title: Principal Research Scientist
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