%0 Conference Paper %B 7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence - UCAmI %D 2013 %T Development Challenges in Web Apps for Public Displays %A Constantin Taivan %A José Miguel Andrade %A Rui José %A Bruno Silva %A Hélder Pinto %A António Nestor Ribeiro %C Carrillo, Costa Rica %I Springer %U Fast Distributed Computation of Distances in Networks %V 8276 %X

Digital public displays can have a key role in urban ubiquitous computing infrastructures, but they have not yet managed to fill this role. A key step in that direction would be the emergence of an application model for open display networks that would enable anyone to create applications for display infrastructures. In this work, we study the development of web-based applications for public displays. We report on our experience of application development for real world public deployment and also on an experiment with external web developers to assess their ability to create such applications using our own development tools. The results show that the web-based app model can effectively be used in the context of public displays and that web developers are able to leverage upon their expertise to create this type of applications.

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