Any room for our new social software!
Dear scholars, I am a freshly gradutated master student in digital culture (ex humanistic informatics) from the University of Bergen in Norway. I presented a master thesis describing the vision I had of a new kind of social software you will find different from the existing twitters, facebook and co. Me and my small team of engineers have been developing the Socrator : "Upload your idea and make it chat!" Shortly, the Socrator is a motor for conversations - 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 -Søkrat was a java desktop prototype for 2 years during the elaboration of my master thesis -now the Socrator is becoming web technology and will have much more elaborated skills ( sept 2012 first version) I was wondering if any of you heard about strategies to get financial support in IT projects from the European Union (i am French) or from scandinavian governments (but the whole team leaves in Norway) Naturally; I am also open to propositions for articles or conferences I could use as a platform to describe the Socrator technology The student lifestyle doesn't get what big ideas are about! hehe Looking forward to see your answers private email at laetitia@socratons.com -- Laetitia
Good morning, Laetitia, Organizations like this one are a good start, you might consider attending the AOIR yearly conference and networking with others about your ideas. Other associations (ICA-International Communication Association, comes to mind) would also provide you with the chance to discuss your ideas with interested people. This software sounds promising, and I hope you'll continue developing this work. Kindly, Peter On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:22 AM, laetitia le chatton <laetitia.lechatton@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear scholars,
I am a freshly gradutated master student in digital culture (ex humanistic informatics) from the University of Bergen in Norway. I presented a master thesis describing the vision I had of a new kind of social software you will find different from the existing twitters, facebook and co. Me and my small team of engineers have been developing the Socrator : "Upload your idea and make it chat!"
Shortly, the Socrator is a motor for conversations
- 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
-Søkrat was a java desktop prototype for 2 years during the elaboration of my master thesis -now the Socrator is becoming web technology and will have much more elaborated skills ( sept 2012 first version)
I was wondering if any of you heard about strategies to get financial support in IT projects from the European Union (i am French) or from scandinavian governments (but the whole team leaves in Norway)
Naturally; I am also open to propositions for articles or conferences I could use as a platform to describe the Socrator technology
The student lifestyle doesn't get what big ideas are about! hehe Looking forward to see your answers private email at laetitia@socratons.com
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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
Hello again Elijah, apologies for cross posting i did not replied yet to that part fo your mail : 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
- semantic web / linked open data I have to exclude the sematic web. the goal looks similar namely letting users getting the feeling a search engine takes semantics into account rather than experiencing keyword based information retrieval But i don't aim at extracting or representing semantic out of a domain knowledge but let users create conversations (not website :-) - ontology development : yes! I played and redefined the concept - knowledge management / document management - information discovery / inquiry yes yes! any link for me? Also with my friend (and team member) we got a fight around your use of expression "finite state machine". I take it, in the context of your mail, as : finite (not a platform) + state (domain or out of domain state for ex) + machine (the motor) but the neardy engineer reminds that every turing machine is a "finite-state machine" and we do have a turing machine here :-) Best On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Elijah Wright <elijah.wright@gmail.com>wrote:
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
-- Laetitia
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