Community support is currently gaining more and more importance in different areas where communication is important, e.g. in knowledge management. One important issue in community support is making the community and the activity of its members visible to the members â the provision of community awareness. This paper addresses the usage of non-desktop user interfaces, namely public shared displays, as an additional interface for community support applications to provide community awareness. By displaying information from within the community such âCommunity Mirrorsâ can help insiders and outsiders getting an understanding of the community, and thereby make more efficient communication possible. We present an overview of how such devices can be used for community support, and briefly describe three applications we have designed and implemented.    «

Community support is currently gaining more and more importance in different areas where communication is important, e.g. in knowledge management. One important issue in community support is making the community and the activity of its members visible to the members â the provision of community awareness. This paper addresses the usage of non-desktop user interfaces, namely public shared displays, as an additional interface for community support applications to provide community awareness. By di...    »