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 3rd International Conference on Communities and Technologies (C&T 2007), 28 June 2007, East Lansing, MI
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Abstract:

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.