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DroneCAST: towards a programming toolkit for airborne multimedia display applications

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In recent years, new type of public displays have captured the interest of researchers-displays with the ability to move freely in three-dimensional space. We refer to such display systems as Airborne Multimedia Display (AMD) systems. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive analysis of requirements for developing interactive AMD applications based on extensive literature survey of the related work and from our own experience of flying AMD systems. We then outline the design and implementation of DroneCAST: a programming toolkit for developing AMD applications with remote delivery and control mechanism for multimedia content with IoT middleware as the core part of the system. Finally, we build a sample AMD application with the toolkit to further illustrate the applicability of the system.

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    MobileHCI '17: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
    September 2017
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    DOI:10.1145/3098279
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    1. airborne displays
    2. drones
    3. interaction
    4. requirements analysis
    5. toolkit

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    • (2022)Above and Beyond: A Scoping Review of Domains and Applications for Human-Drone InteractionProceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3491102.3501881(1-22)Online publication date: 29-Apr-2022
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