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Chapter 6
Experiences of Supporting
Local and Remote Mobile
Phone Interaction in Situated
Public Display Deployments
Jörg Müller
University of Münster, Germany
Keith Cheverst
University of Lancaster, UK
Dan Fitton
University of Lancaster, UK
Nick Taylor
University of Lancaster, UK
Oliver Paczkowski
University of Münster, Germany
Antonio Krüger
University of Münster, Germany
ABSTRACT
Public displays and mobile phones are ubiquitous technologies that are already weaving themselves
into the everyday life of urban citizens. The combination of the two enables new and novel possibili-
ties, such as interaction with displays that are not physically accessible, extending screen real estate
for mobile phones or transferring user content to and from public displays. However, current usability
evaluations of prototype systems have explored only a small part of this design space, as usage of such
systems is deeply embedded in and dependent on social and everyday context. In order to investigate
issues surrounding appropriation and real use in social context field studies are necessary. In this paper
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