Displays as a Material: A Route to Making Displays More Pervasive
David Sweeney, Nicholas Chen, Steve E. Hodges, Tobias Große-Puppendahl · IEEE Pervasive Computing · 2016
For digital displays to become more pervasive, they need to have the properties of materials like textiles and plastic film. Moving away from the row-column addressing architecture that dominates traditional displays, the authors propose an architecture that relies on autonomous pixels - that is, pixels that independently sense input and convert it to a corresponding visual output. Two different prototypes reveal the challenges and potential of autonomous pixels, highlighting how digital displays supplied as a flexible material can help foster the development of various new applications. This department is part of a special issue on pervasive displays.