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Fueled by falling display hardware costs and rising demand, digital signage and pervasive displays are becoming ever more ubiquitous. Such systems have traditio

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Our increasingly smart environments will sense, track and model users and provide them with personalized services. We can already embed computers in everyday ob

This book develops tools and techniques that will help urban residents gain access to urban computing. Metaphorically speaking, it is taking computing to the st