Interactive Display Services for Smart Environments

Our daily environments become more and more populated with technology, creating so-called smart environments. In these environments, pervasive applications can make use of remote resources in order to improve their user experience. Streaming content from one device to a remote display has become very popular since the release of consumer products such as Apple´s AirPlay or Google´s Chromecast, if not earlier. However, these streaming devices and protocols do not offer user interaction at the remote display and require manual setup. Additionally, both applications and displays are operated by the user. In this paper, we present middleware-based display services for public and private displays that offer user interaction as well as sensor input at the remote device. Further, our approach not only supports the user´s application to connect to an environment display, but also lets the user consume content that is provided by an application in the environment, using his/her own device.