The Plasma Poster Network: Posting Multimedia Content in Public Places

Much effort has been expended in creating online meeting spaces and information resources to foster social networks, create synergies between collocated and remote colleagues, and enhance social capital within organizations. Following the observation that physical corkboards serve an important community building and maintenance function, in this paper we describe a network of large screen, digital, interactive, bulletin boards, the Plasma Posters. The Plasma Posters bridge the gap between online, asynchronous, community-based, content sharing using personal devices, and sharing of content in physical spaces using public displays. We describe our design motivation, a fieldwork study of online and offline information sharing practices, and an internal deployment of Plasma Posters.