TwitApp: in-product micro-blogging for design sharing

  • Authors:
  • Wei Li;Tovi Grossman;Justin Matejka;George Fitzmaurice

  • Affiliations:
  • Autodesk Research, Toronto, Canada;Autodesk Research, Toronto, Canada;Autodesk Research, Toronto, Canada;Autodesk Research, Toronto, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We describe TwitApp, an enhanced micro-blogging system integrated within AutoCAD for design sharing. TwitApp integrates rich content and still keeps the sharing transaction cost low. In TwitApp, tweets are organized by their project, and users can follow or unfollow each individual project. We introduce the concept of automatic tweet drafting and other novel features such as enhanced real-time search and integrated live video streaming. The TwitApp system leverages the existing Twitter micro-blogging system. We also contribute a study which provides insights on these concepts and associated designs, and demonstrates potential user excitement of such tools.