Hello Elijah Wright,

Let me check the patent organism first, lol. Questions here are super interesting. Thanks.

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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?

the Socrator will only use the information uploaded by the user in order to get the conversation going, more than one concept framework can be used, it involves tagging but also other strategies

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Are they tagging/labeling the multimedia content, or tagging the whole conversation as a 'topic'?

yup the user creates words and expressions eventually associated with material like vids , all the trick consist in imagining how they can be found during an automatized conversation. many strategies are available to the user and provided by our motor

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What are the affordances made possible by the system? What are the costs (time, attention, entering detail about content) demanded of the user?

most interesting affordances are 1)the possibility to have a real chat based on language and style of the users creators of the conversation:. You will not feel like talking to Eliza especially or a chatbot personality but with the people who created the conversation themselves, despite their absence. In fact Eliza ( its use of substitions rules) is one concept framework among other available to the user 2) Socrator can find and rank the most interesting conversations for a given chat input, before the user selecting one of those 3) Socrator can choose the best strategy to convey the information,diminishing workload from the user creating the conversation the costs demanded on the user are big for earlier version of engine (prototype) the point is for me to provide a very easy to use platform for development (why I need financial resources and bigger team!) BUT you didn't ask html to be a css styleshit the very fist day : html was occasion to develop a whole range of applications, the same is happening here, really really.

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What makes it interesting such that someone would want to talk about it at CHI or in JCMC? :-)

I think it is now pretty obvious :-) but, among scholars, could be a very nice software to use in order to test context frameworks and their impact on conversation

Best, thanks again

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Elijah Wright <elijah.wright@gmail.com>wrote:

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On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:22 AM, laetitia le chatton <laetitia.lechatton@gmail.com> wrote:

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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.

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- 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

-- Laetitia