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The Activity Platform

Tuesday, May 19, 2015 - 4:00pm-4:30pm
Authors: 

Helen J. Wang, Alexander Moshchuk, Michael Gamon, Mona Haraty, Shamsi Iqbal, Eli T. Brown, Ashish Kapoor, Chris Meek, Eric Chen, Yuan Tian, Jaime Teevan, Mary Czerwinski, and Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research

Abstract: 

In this paper, we advocate “activity” to be a central abstraction between people and computing instead of applications. We outline the vision of the activity platform as the next-generation social platform.

Helen J. Wang, Microsoft Research

Alexander Moshchuk, Microsoft Research

Michael Gamon, Microsoft Research

Shamsi Iqbal, Microsoft Research

Eli T. Brown, Microsoft Research

Ashish Kapoor, Microsoft Research

Chris Meek, Microsoft Research

Eric Chen, Microsoft Research

Yuan Tian, Microsoft Research

Jaime Teevan, Microsoft Research

Mary Czerwinski , Microsoft Research

Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research

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BibTeX
@inproceedings {189924,
author = {Helen J. Wang and Alexander Moshchuk and Michael Gamon and Shamsi Iqbal and Eli T. Brown and Ashish Kapoor and Chris Meek and Eric Chen and Yuan Tian and Jaime Teevan and Mary Czerwinski and Susan Dumais},
title = {The Activity Platform},
booktitle = {15th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS XV)},
year = {2015},
address = {Kartause Ittingen, Switzerland},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotos15/workshop-program/presentation/wang},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = may
}
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