This paper presents a structured literature review on interaction design for social contexts in public spaces, especially the research on designing for public interactive facilities, such as public displays, interactive installations and media façades, aiming to gain a holistic understanding on current research. A framework is also introduced to help summarize current research focuses, consider...

In this paper, we describe an architecture supporting personalized interaction with information services available in public spaces. In particular, we focus the presentation on the personal user modeling agent that runs on the user mobile device and is able to exchange data with the environment in order to get personalized information.

We propose a method for anticipating potential visual hazards during the design phase of an architectural project. In particular, we focus on the needs of people with impaired vision. The method uses a model of human visual loss together with physically accurate rendering of scenes. It avoids the major challenge of automated computer recognition of obstacles, and instead uses easily computable ...

The merge of the Web of People and the Internet of Things leads to a shift from technology-push product or system oriented design to data-driven service centric design. The growth and development of social computing have dramatically increased the complexity but also offer new opportunities and solutions in the societal context. We look into the challenges in designing for social interaction in...

One method of privacy-preserving accounting or billing in cyber-physical systems, such as electronic toll collection or public transportation ticketing, is to have the user present an encrypted record of transactions and perform the accounting or billing computation securely on them. Honesty of the user is ensured by spot checking the record for some selected surveyed transactions. But how much...

This paper demonstrates a simulated solution for evacuating people from a public place using the Coulomb laws. In an emergency, a plan to guide people away from danger in the shortest and safest possible ways is essential. We employed the Coulomb laws to divide the public space into safe boundaries, based on the number of people inside. This is a dynamic solution, which means, it will change th...

Ljubljana has recently started to accumulate various European and global awards such as the European Green Capital 2016. ! is article analyses the city’s sustainable living policy that led to this award and assesses non-environmental factors which improve the quality of urban life – an important indicator for various city rankings. ! rough case studies of urban cycling and gardening, it focuses...

Gesture-based approaches are becoming an increasingly popular technique in Human Computer Interaction. Recent developments in the hardware field have made it more affordable and more reliable to use gesture-based interfaces and they are becoming more of a standard way for human users to interact with computers. Most of the research has been investigating the usage of gestures in personal and li...