Pervasive Displays 2013

L ow-cost public displays are growing in popularity, appearing in our workplaces, in public spaces, and on university campuses. However, due to their pervasiveness, they present many challenges: How do people encounter public displays? What are the key usability and design factors when creating and deploying applications for such displays? How do local communities adopt pervasive displays, and what is the effect of such displays? Such questions were the focus of the Second International Symposium on Pervasive Displays (PerDis 13), chaired by Roy Want and Bill Schilit, took place in June 2013 at the Google Campus in Mountain View, California. The ACM-affiliated event brought together researchers from both academia and industry interested in the opportunities and challenges of pervasive display systems. For three days, leading researchers from around the world discussed how pervasive displays might be designed, implemented, and used in the future. The symposium program, chaired by Timo Ojala, comprised a paper, poster, and video track showing a variety of research results and works in progress and combining the fields of computer science, electrical engineering, design, and applied arts.