This work seeks to strengthen interaction within a research community through a centrally-located physical device that presents online presence information in a semi-public space....
In this paper, we describe the YeTi information sharing system that has been designed to foster community building through informal digital content sharing. The YeTi system is a g...
Toshiya Yamada, Jun Shingu, Elizabeth F. Churchill...
This paper describes three important pillars of publishing programs emerging at university libraries: providing a robust publishing platform, engaging the academic community in di...
Online social networking communities such as Facebook and MySpace are extremely popular. These sites have changed how many people develop and maintain relationships through postin...
Twitter, Facebook, and other related systems that we call social awareness streams are rapidly changing the information and communication dynamics of our society. These systems, w...