From Media Spaces to Emplaced Media: Digital Poster Boards and Community Connectedness

  • Elizabeth F. Churchill
  • Les Nelson
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Part of the Computer Supported Cooperative Work book series (CSCW)

The influence of research in media spaces and desktop-based video communication portals extends to other forms of media experience. In this chapter we describe our work on interactive digital community bulletin boards. We give a brief overview of five installations of interactive poster boards, focusing on the similarities and differences in the details of the installation design, the setting and the adoption, and appropriation of the technology. Public space communication gives us another way to reflect on past models and elaborating future models of “informated” environments designed to promote social connection.

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Bulletin Board Public Display Computer Support Cooperative Work Interactive Poster Personal Device 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Elizabeth F. Churchill
    • 1
  • Les Nelson
    • 2
  1. 1.Yahoo! Research2821 Mission College Blvd.Santa ClaraUSA
  2. 2.Palo Alto Research Center, Inc.3333 Coyote Hill Road Palo AltoUSA

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