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W3C Workshop on Web-based Signage

Agenda

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Makuhari, Chiba, Japan

Workshop Day 1 - Thursday, June 14th

9:30 - 10:00 Breakfast

10:00-11:05 Welcome and Scene Setting

Moderator
Futomi Hatano & Kaz Ashimura
Scribe
Charles McCathieNevile
  1. Brief introduction from the co-Chairs, Futomi Hatano (Newphoria) & Kaz Ashimura (W3C) [3 mins] — [Slides]
  2. Welcome greeting — Noritaka Uji (NTT) [5 mins]
  3. Expectations to this Web based Signage Workshop from the viewpoint of W3C Keio — Masao Isshiki (W3C) [5 mins]
  4. Expectations to this Web based Signage Workshop from the viewpoint of W3C — Jeff Jaffe (W3C) [10 mins] — [Slides]
  5. The current activity and situation of Digital Signage Consortium in Japan — Ichiya Nakamura (Digital Signage Consortium) [20 mins]
  6. Examples of Digital Signage Developments by JR East — Kyoji Oda (East Japan Marketing & Communications, Inc.) [15 mins]
  7. Introductory talk on the basic policy of W3C's standardization and the workshop construction — Kaz Ashimura (W3C) [7 mins] — [Slides]


11:05 - 11:30 Morning Break

11:30 - 13:00 Session 1: Use Cases and Requirements 1 — Signs and passers-by

Moderator
Charles McCathieNevile
Scribe
Kaz Ashimura

Topics:

  • Interactive Signage
  • Networked/Connected devices
  • Multi-screen scenarios
  • Architecture proposal

Short self-introductions (2 mins for each) by the following:

  1. Yasuji Eguchi (DSC)
  2. Manyoung Cho (Future Web Technology)
  3. Tomihisa Shimoyama (MIC)
  4. Yosuke Ito (MRI)
  5. Yasuaki Oshima (Nano Opt)
  6. Takayuki Tsuchiya (Yahoo Japan)

Presentation by the following (15 mins for each):

  1. Manabu Tsunori (Intel)
  2. Toru Kobayashi (NTT Labs.)

And then panel discussion (48 mins)

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 15:30 Session 2: State of the Art Digital Signage Services

Moderator
John C. Wang
Scribe
Charles McCathieNevile

Topics:

  • What is deployed and working
  • What is working in the research labs but hasn't made it to the street

Short self-introductions (2 mins for each) by the following:

  1. Makoto Kitamura (Fujifilm)
  2. Yukio Kimura (Groova)
  3. Hideaki Kosaka (Mitsubishi)
  4. Tomoyuki Oosaka (NEC)
  5. Hiroyuki Wakabayashi (Panasonic)
  6. Craig Makino (PDC)

Presentations and demonstrations (20 mins for each) by the following:

  1. Takeshi Chikuse (Cisco)
  2. Hiroshi Yoshida (Hakuhodo)
  3. Takeshi Enokibori (Hitachi)
  4. John C. Wang (IAdea)
  5. Samuel Gallacier (INNES)

And then Q & A (8 mins).



15:30 - 16:00 Afternoon Break

16:00 - 17:00 Session 3: Digital Signage Japan Demo Tour

Note: English guide is avaialble.

17:00 Workshop Day 1 ends


17:00-19:00 Reception

Venue: Hotel New Otani Makuhari ("Stella" room on the second floor)

18:30- DSJ Night — Collocated event


Workshop Day 2 - Friday, June 15th

9:00 - 9:30 Breakfast

9:30-11:00 Session 4: Use Cases and Requirements 2 — Signs and users contineud

What makes the web the right platform, what is still difficult, what does not yet have a good solution.

Moderator
Toru Kobayashi
Scribe
J. Alan Bird & Kaz Ashimura

Topics:

  • Interactive Signage
  • Networked/Connected devices
  • Privacy and user information
  • Disaster scenarios/Emergency communications
  • Architecture proposal

Short self-introductions (2 mins for each) by the following:

  1. Junshiro Kanda (Mitsubishi)
  2. Takashi Koyano (NHK Enterprises)
  3. Darth Vidar (SMART Communications)
  4. Tatsuya Igarashi (Sony)

Presentations possibly include demonstrations (15 mins for each) by the following:

  1. Ericsson (Johan)
  2. Toshiyuki Okamoto (KDDI)

And then panel discussion (50 mins)



11:00 - 11:30 Morning Break

11:30 - 12:30 Session 5: Use Cases and Requirements 3 — Accessibility and Adaptive systems

Signs offering content such as 'for rent' signs; crowd-sourcing signs; signs for emergency use; "audible signs" (multimodal interaction); "Accessible Signage" such as Remote Infrared Audible Signage (RIAS) for print-reading disabilities; issues concerning privacy, etc.

Moderator
Bill Crandall & Kaz Ashimura
Scribe
J. Alan Bird

Topics:

  1. Talking signs
  2. Accessibility

Presentation and demonstration by Bill Crandall (SKI) [15 mins]:

  • SKI's Statement 1
  • SKI's Statement 2
  • SKI's Statement 3

Remote presentation and demonstration by Robert Pearson (AMI) [15 mins]:

  • AMI's Statement

And then panel discussion (30 mins)

12:30 - 13:40 Lunch

13:40 - 15:30 Session 6: Standards

Moderator
Mike Smith & Charles McCathieNevile
Scribe
J. Alan Bird

What W3C has, what other organizations already do, what gaps do we need to fill?

Topics:

  • Gap analysis for W3C standards today
  • Standards from other organizations
  • What W3C standards work is already relevant

Explanation on W3C standards today (10 mins for each):

  1. HTML5 and HTML.next, Mike Smith (W3C)
  2. Web Applications & Device APIs, Charles McCathieNevile (Opera Software)
  3. Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces, Kaz Ashimura (W3C)

Presentations (15 mins for each) by the following:

  1. Jun Fujisawa (Canon)
  2. Stephan Steglich (Fraunhofer FOKUS)
  3. Kensaku Komatsu (NTT Communications)
  4. Hiroyuki Aizu (Toshiba)

And then Q & A (20 mins)



15:30 - 16:00 Afternoon Break

16:00 - 17:30 Session 7: Wrap Up & Next Steps

Moderator
Futomi Hatano & Kaz Ashimura
Scribe
Mike Smith

Topics:

  • Workshop issue review
  • What was missing so far
  • Business impact of Web-based Signage
  • How to work in W3C (how the Web-based BG relates to other groups, etc.)

Presentations (15 mins for each) by the following:

  1. Sunghan Kim (ETRI)
  2. Futomi Hatano (Newphoria)

Workshop issue review (40 mins)

Business reflections on what we heard, J. Alan Bird (10 mins)

And then wrap-up (10 mins)

17:30 Workshop Day2 ends