TwitApp: In-Product Micro-Blogging for Design Sharing

Wei Li, Tovi Grossman, Justin Matejka, George Fitzmaurice

January 2011 · Proceedings of the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)

Abstract

We describe TwitApp, an enhanced micro-blogging system integrated within AutoCAD for design sharing. TwitApp integrates rich content and still keeps the sharing transaction cost low. In TwitApp, tweets are organized by their project, and users can follow or unfollow each individual project. We introduce the concept of automatic tweet drafting and other novel features such as enhanced real-time search and integrated live video streaming. The TwitApp system leverages the existing Twitter micro-blogging system. We also contribute a study which provides insights on these concepts and associated designs, and demonstrates potential user excitement of such tools.

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Figures

Figure 1. The TwitApp plug-in is displayed as a palette within AutoCAD.

Figure 2. The TwitApp palette is organized into four tabs: Projects, Search, Post, and Following.

Figure 3. A project (left) and a rich content tweet in TwitApp A) Text message, B) Drawing data file, C) User command history, D) Thumbnail screen im-age, E) Command icons, F) New tweet and total twee

Figure 4. A) Following Tab, B) Project dialog win-dow for a given designer.

Figure 5.Real time search find a new tweet, which used command HATCH.

Figure 8.The setting dialog provides UI controls to setup the time trigger and the command triggers.

Figure 9.Automatically generated tweet drafts.

Figure 10.A) Live video player window lauched by TwitApp, B) A live broadcasting button (red) displayed over a project control.

Figure 12. a) Layout of actual TwipApp tweets dis-played by an existing Twitter client. b) Mockup of the same client within a mobile device.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{10.1145/2047196.2047219,
 abstract = {We describe TwitApp, an enhanced micro-blogging system integrated within AutoCAD for design sharing. TwitApp integrates rich content and still keeps the sharing transaction cost low. In TwitApp, tweets are organized by their project, and users can follow or unfollow each individual project. We introduce the concept of automatic tweet drafting and other novel features such as enhanced real-time search and integrated live video streaming. The TwitApp system leverages the existing Twitter micro-blogging system. We also contribute a study which provides insights on these concepts and associated designs, and demonstrates potential user excitement of such tools.},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
 author = {Li, Wei and Grossman, Tovi and Matejka, Justin and Fitzmaurice, George},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology},
 doi = {10.1145/2047196.2047219},
 isbn = {9781450307161},
 keywords = {twitter, micro-blogging, sharing, design},
 location = {Santa Barbara, California, USA},
 numpages = {10},
 pages = {185–194},
 publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
 series = {UIST '11},
 title = {TwitApp: In-Product Micro-Blogging for Design Sharing},
 url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/2047196.2047219},
 year = {2011}
}