1. Proactive Displays: Bridging the Gaps between Online Social Networks and Shared Physical Spaces Joe McCarthy Principal Instigator Strands Labs, Seattle

3. Strands: social recommendation & discovery http://www.strands.com/corp http://blog.strands.com

4. Strands: social recommendation & discovery Big announcement today: BBVA + Strands Tú cuentas (You count, in Spanish)

5. Strands: social recommendation & discovery “ What you play counts!”

6. Recommender System Startup Contest Deadline: 15 September 2008 ACM RecSys 2008 23-25 October Lausanne, Switzerland

7. Strands Labs Seattle Mission: “ To design, develop and deploy technologies that weave together the various strands of our activities, interests and passions to bridge the gaps between the digital and physical worlds and help people relate to the other people, places and things around them in ways that offer value to all participants .” [http://gumption.typepad.com/blog/2008/03/innovating-at-m.html] Location:

8. Proactive Displays: Definition ˌ )prō- ˈ ak-tiv adjective acting in anticipation of future problems, needs, or changes i- ˈ splā noun a setting or presentation of something in open view

9. Proactive Displays + Online Profiles Physical Tokens + Large Displays Better Real-world Interactions Bridging the gaps between people by bridging the gaps between the online and offline worlds = Large visual or aural displays that can sense & respond to the people and activities taking place in their vicinity

10. 1st Generation Proactive Displays MusicFX MusicFX: An Arbiter of Group Preferences for Computer-Supported Cooperative Workouts Joseph F. McCarthy and Theodore Anagnost 1998 ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW ‘98) A Multi-Agent System for Meting Out Influence in an Intelligent Environment M. V. Nagendra Prasad and Joseph F. McCarthy Eleventh Innovative Applications in Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAI ‘99) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLgXLl4uGYk a fitness center environment that knows who is working out, what they like to listen to, and dynamically adjusts the music to best suit the group of exercisers at any given time.

11. 2nd Generation Proactive Displays Visual Awareness Location Tools (ActiveMap & EventManager) ActiveMap: A Visualization Tool for Location Awareness to Support Informal Interactions Joseph F. McCarthy and Eric S. Meidel First International Symposium on Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing (HUC '99) EventManager: Support for the Peripheral Awareness of Events Joseph F. McCarthy and Theodore D. Anagnost. Second International Symposium on Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing (HUC 2000) a suite of tools for creating greater awareness of the location and activities of colleagues within a workgroup, with an aim to provide more opportunities for informal communication

12. 3rd Generation Proactive Displays UniCast, OutCast, GroupCast: Ubiquitous Peripheral Displays UniCast, OutCast & GroupCast: Three Steps Toward Ubiquitous Peripheral Displays Joseph F. McCarthy, Tony J. Costa and Edy S. Liongosari Third International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2001) Promoting Awareness of Work Activities through Peripheral Displays Elaine M. Huang, Joe Tullio, Tony J. Costa and Joseph F. McCarthy 2002 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems (CHI 2002)

13. 4th Generation Proactive Displays AutoSpeakerID Ticket2Talk Neighborhood Window Augmenting the Social Space of an Academic Conference Joseph F. McCarthy, David W. McDonald, Suzanne Soroczak, David H. Nguyen and Al M. Rashid ACM 2004 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2004) Proactive Displays: Supporting Awareness in Fluid Social Environments David W. McDonald, Joseph F. McCarthy, Suzanne Soroczak, David H. Nguyen and Al M. Rashid ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interactions (TOCHI), Vol. 14, No. 4, January 2008

14. 4th Generation Proactive Displays (v 2)

15. 5th Generation Proactive Displays The Context, Content & Community Collage @ Nokia Research Center Palo Alto The Context, Content & Community Collage: Sharing Personal Digital Media in the Physical Workplace Joseph F. McCarthy, Ben Congleton, F. Maxwell Harper To appear: ACM 2008 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2008)

18. Friendships at Work 30% of employees have a best friend at work (BF@W) 20% of employees dedicate time to building relationships at work Employees with a BF@W are 50% more satisfied with their company Employees with a BF@W are 7 times more likely to be engaged in their work

20. Friendships through Social Media @ Work? @

21. The Context, Content & Community Collage: A proactive display application Opening physical windows into online content in workplace contexts to foster a greater sense of community

23. A User-Generated Video on Proactive Displays http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5rU9cAiYsY

24. Signup / Login

25. Select / Configure Module

26. Select Bluetooth Device(s)

27. Locations (mock-up)

28. Hardware & Software

29. Interactions with / through the displays

30. Interactions with displays

31. The Highest Rated Content (5 up votes)

32. Edge detection http://www.snopes.com/horrors/robbery/kidney.asp

33. Everything in moderation

34. Moderation: NSFW [ N ot S afe F or W ork]

35. Moderation: SFW

41. Positive / Negative Impact (Personal / Professional)

43. Impact of Displays on Social Media

44. Influence of Rank & Role

45. Influence of Team Membership

46. Influence of competition Wii Tournaments

51. Future Work @ Strands Labs Seattle New Online Sources (http://beta.strands.com) New Physical Spaces (“third places”)

52. Related Work: Commercial Awareness / Interactions at Events Digital Signage Captivate TV ClearChannel, et al. RippleTV

54. Related Work: partyStrands (1) New Year’s Eve Times Square, NYC Paul Van Dyk Crystal Ballroom, Portland Buda del Mar Bar Madrid http://www.partystrands.com http://blog.mystrands.com/category/partystrands

55. Related Work: partyStrands (2)

59. Backup

60. Related Work: Alone Together Two Hours of Joint Solitude http://www.coffeegeek.com/opinions/cafestage/10-19-2005 Alone Together http://blogs.parc.com/playon/

62. Early proactive displays Dangling String (PARC) Bus Mobile (UC Berkeley)

63. Proactive Displays in the large Sunset @ 200MHz (PARC) Love Board (Hachiko Crossing)

64. Proactive Displays on the road Alaris E-boards (www.alaris.net)

65. Proactive displays, circa 2054

68. Flickr API