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“Your place or mine?” – Connecting communities and public places through networked public displays

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Enhancing Community Interaction in Public Spaces Through Situated Public Displays

Nemanja Memarovic and Marc Langheinrich

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Everywhere around us...

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Where can we find public displays?

What is the role of public space?

‘the common ground where people carry out the functional and ritual activities that bind a community…it is the stage where the drama of communal life unfolds.’

Public space, Carr et al.

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• Weakening connections within local community

• Time sharing and community avoidance• Weakening connections among

distributed communities• Sense of isolation in remote communities

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Community index, psychology

6. Applications

Project ID CardFP7 FET Open project

EU funding: 1.4 million €

Starting date: May 1st 2010

Project duration: 30 months

4 Academic partners

Public Display Network (PD-NET)