YETI, a digital community bulletin board

This video shows a demo of YETI, a digital bulletin board we created as a front-end to a social networking and content sharing infrastructure for work groups. The prototype was deployed between FXPAL (www.fxpal.com) and Fuji Xerox's research laboratory in Japan, allowing research colleagues to share content by posting it online and publishing it to shared digital spaces and to public space bulletin boards. The project was called YETI because we were dealing explicitly with the support of sharing across time zones - YETI stands for YEsterday Tomorrow Interface. This project won an ACM design award at the DIS (Designing Interactive Systems) conference in 2004.

The papers we wrote about this project and related projects on digital community bulletin boards can be found here:

Elizabeth Churchill, Les Nelson, Laurent Denoue, Jonathan Helfman, Paul Murphy "Sharing Multimedia Content with Interactive Displays: A Case Study" Presented at DIS 2004, Cambridge, MA, August 1-4, 2004.

E. F. Churchill, L. Nelson, and L. Denoue Multimedia Fliers: Informal Information Sharing With Digital Community Bulletin Boards In Proceedings of Communities and Technologies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2003, September 5, 2003.

E.F. Churchill, L. Nelson, L. Denoue and A. Girgensohn The Plasma Poster Network: Posting Multimedia Content in Public Places. In Proceedings of INTERACT 2003, Ninth IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Zürich, Switzerland, 1 September 2003.

Yamada, T., Shingu, J., Churchill, E.F., Nelson, L., Helfman, J., and Murphy, P. (2004). Who Cares? Reflecting Who is Reading What on Distributed Community Bulletin Boards. Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Churchill, E.; Nelson, L. Information Flows in a Gallery-Work-Entertainment Space: The Effect of a Digital Bulletin Board on Social Encounters. In Human Organization, July 2009, Volume 68, Issue 2, p.206-217, (2009)

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• research
• digital bulletin boards
• social networks
• community
• content sharing
• posters