On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:22 AM, laetitia le chatton <laetitia.lechatton@gmail.com> wrote:
Shortly, the Socrator is a motor for conversations
I really like the idea of "a motor for conversations" - like a finite state machine or a cog/sprocket assembly for moving things along. Mental sidelink - the Agora.
- some users create and store interactive conversations on any topic, uploading all kinds of multimedia material they find necessary to the conversation - other users are meant to have these conversations: they access this material by having a chat with the Socrator
So users upload material and... tag it as related to a particular term or concept framework? Or is there a more complicated system in play, there? Are they tagging/labeling the multimedia content, or tagging the whole conversation as a 'topic'? You might have luck looking for funding / publishing opportunities related to: - semantic web / linked open data - ontology development - knowledge management / document management - information discovery / inquiry What are the affordances made possible by the system? What are the costs (time, attention, entering detail about content) demanded of the user? What makes it interesting such that someone would want to talk about it at CHI or in JCMC? :-) best, --elijah wright