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Twitterspace: a co-developed display using Twitter to enhance community awareness

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William Ryan,

William R. Hazlewood,

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PDC '08: Proceedings of the Tenth Anniversary Conference on Participatory Design 2008

Pages 230 - 233

Published: 01 October 2008 Publication History

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We describe the use of an ambient display called Twitterspace for promoting awareness of events and member activities within our community centers. Content for the display pulls from the social networking platform Twitter. Tweets, which are the recent posts from community members, move across large screens placed in public rooms. Through the concept of community-at-a-glance, we use these tweets to encourage enhanced community awareness and engagement. Although we are only in the beginning stages of our implementation, we have already seen changes in the way people behave with respect to their participation on Twitter. We have seen a surge of posting activity and a rise in the general awareness about the members of the community including remembering birthdays, having mini-conversations, and tracking which members are going to what events. With this participatory design project, we hope to further support general community awareness and allow members within our community to take ownership of the display both virtually and at their physical locations.

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PDC '08: Proceedings of the Tenth Anniversary Conference on Participatory Design 2008

October 2008

345 pages

ISBN:9780981856100

Conference Chair:
David Hakken
Indiana University, Indiana
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Jesper Simonsen
Roskilde University, Denmark
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Toni Roberston
University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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Makice KOlsen DHinckley KMorris MHudson SGreenberg S(2009)Phatics and the design of communityCHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/1520340.1520445(3133-3136)Online publication date: 4-Apr-2009
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