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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.

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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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