Abstract: Prospero is an infrastructure to enable public displays to reflect evolving public
participation. Public displays, that is, displays located in public spaces and
accessible to a public, constitute an increasingly important element of the
public sphere.
We will develop an infrastructure for community-aware public displays that are
controlled by users' expressed needs and preferences; we see our endeavor as
part of an ongoing, democratic reclaiming, by citizens, of control over an
increasing number of aspects of the public sphere in general.
