Reflecting on Several Metaphors for Media Spaces

Greenberg, S. and McEwan, G. (2006)
Reflecting on Several Metaphors for Media Spaces. In CSCW'06 Workshop on Media Space - Reflecting on 20 Years - A workshop held at ACM CSCW'06. Steve Harrison, Organizer.

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Abstract

I and my students have being doing research in media space systems for well over a decade. As part of this work, we designed and used three media spaces that collect both video snapshots and groupware artefacts. While each has superficially similar capabilities, they are designed around quite different metaphors. 

 * Teamrooms, commercialized as Teamwave Workplace, is based on the notion of multiple rooms [3,8];
 * Notification Collage is a shared live bulletin board viewable on a large public display and from people's workstations [4];
 * Community Bar is an expandable sidebar that holds multiple places [5,7].

This paper briefly reflects on each system - and each metaphor - as a communal place.

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CLASS = { WORKSHOP },
AUTHOR = { Greenberg, S. and McEwan, G. },
TITLE = { Reflecting on Several Metaphors for Media Spaces },
BOOKTITLE = { CSCW'06 Workshop on Media Space - Reflecting on 20 Years - A workshop held at ACM CSCW'06 },
YEAR = { 2006 },
PUBLISHER = { Steve Harrison, Organizer },
}