Type of Document	Master's Thesis
Author	Aswathanarayana setty, Narendra Nallapeta
Author's Email Address	nnaray3@tigers.lsu.edu
URN	etd-11162012-115927
Title	An Electronic Architecture for Mediating Digital Information in a Hallway Facade
Degree	Master of Science (M.S.)
Department	Electrical & Computer Engineering
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Ramanujam, Jagannathan Committee Co-Chair Ullmer, Brygg Committee Co-Chair Trahan, Jerry Committee Member
Keywords	hallway Facade
Date of Defense	2012-11-01
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract Ubiquitous computing requires integration of physical space with digital information. This presents the challenges of integrating electronics, physical space, software and the interaction tools which can effectively communicate with the audience. Many research groups have embraced different techniques depending on location, context, space, and availability of necessary skills to make the world around us as an interface to the digital world. Encouraged by early successes and fostered by project undertaken by tangible visualization group. We introduce an architecture of Blades and Tiles for the development and realization of interactive wall surfaces. It provides an inexpensive, open-ended platform for constructing large-scale tangible and embedded interfaces. In this paper, we propose tiles built using inexpensive pegboards and a gateway for each of these tiles to provide access to digital information. The paper describes the architecture using a corridor fa\c{c}ade application. The corridor fa\c{c}ade uses full-spectrum LEDs, physical labels and stencils, and capacitive touch sensors to provide mediated representation, monitoring and querying of physical and digital content. Example contents include the physical and online status of people and the activity and dynamics of online research content repositories. Several complementary devices such as Microsoft PixelSense and smartdevices can support additional user interaction with the system. This enables interested people in synergistic physical environments to observe, explore, understand, and engage in ongoing activities and relationships. This paper describes the hardware architecture and software libraries employed and how they are used in our research center hallway and academic semester projects.
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