Friendsters at Work: Displaying Social Media Streams in the Workplace
Joseph F. McCarthy
Workshop on Public Practices, Social Software: Examining social practices in networked publics at the Third International Conference on Communities and Technologies (C&T 2007), 28 June 2007, East Lansing, MI

At Nokia Research Center Palo Alto, we are embarking on an investigation into the use of next generation proactive displays, in which we will be exploring how a sociotechnical ecosystem consisting of people, offices, mobile phones and situated computer displays can promote greater awareness, interaction opportunities and relationships among collocated collaborators in a work setting. Social media streams will provide the content that flows among these elements of the ecosystem.

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