[Air-L] Any room for our new social software!

[laetitia le chatton]

> Hello Elijah Wright,
>
> Let me check the patent organism first, lol. Questions here are super
> interesting. Thanks.
>
>> >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
>
>> >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
>
>> >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.
>
>> >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 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:22 AM, laetitia le chatton
>> <laetitia.lechatton at 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
>>
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