Informative art: using amplified artworks as information displays
DARE '00 Proceedings of DARE 2000 on Designing augmented reality environments
Slow Technology – Designing for Reflection
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Staying open to interpretation: engaging multiple meanings in design and evaluation
DIS '06 Proceedings of the 6th conference on Designing Interactive systems
Why we twitter: understanding microblogging usage and communities
Proceedings of the 9th WebKDD and 1st SNA-KDD 2007 workshop on Web mining and social network analysis
What's happening?: promoting community awareness through opportunistic, peripheral interfaces
Proceedings of the Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces
Phatics and the design of community
CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
TwitterSigns: microblogging on the walls
Proceedings of the international conference on Multimedia
Thanks and tweets: comparing two public displays
Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Proceeding of the 16th International Academic MindTrek Conference
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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.