Roundtable 1

by: Renee Hudson

•    Joan DiMicco

      o Traditionally HCI focuses on user oriented needs and design

      o Creation of communication tools determine what kind of communication is facilitated

      o Design with intentionality

      o Gaming – persuasion and reward systems

      o How does a system engender trust?

•    Alan Liu, position statement: where are we going with social computing? Nature and future of social computing

      o Template is a personality, an identity (has a head, a foot ☺)

      o Xobni.com – based on Outlook (slows it down, fyi)

      o We want in some way to collect our community and carry it around with us

      o Think of what we want when we sign up for facebook

      o Augmented reality of your treasured community of others

      o Method of keeping the dead with us: emails from them, pictures, etc. (Alan’s dream for social computing in the future)

      o Larry (wikipedia)

            • Social computing that has the end of information creation and / but also entertainment

      o Leah – citing patterns through a social lens – what are the relationships between these authors?

      o Miriam Metzger – idea of using deception to appear more credible in certain environments (particularly something like facebook where one is relying on social credibility)

      o Joan – how do you deceive for the right audience? (different profiles for friends, family, etc.)

      o Social linking has to be reciprocal

      o Deception, avatars – way to manage economics

      o Necessary for a multitude of sidebars – multiple sidebar identity allows one to modify identity based on persona one is portraying (professional, etc.)

      o What recommendations would help this sidebar-based system?

      o Alan – definition and social computing, social issues

        •    What would be a meaningful cluster of metadata information?

        •    How do you go about understanding the data that the system would be able to harvest?

     o Tad – move beyond designing for the user to designing for the inter-personal space

        •    What are the rules of engagement?

     o Alan – can multiple sidebars create boundaries within communities?

        •    How in the information community are we going to distinguish between expert communities and say the communities that participate in say,  wikipedia?

    o Sidebar as a substitute for context and community?

    o What counts as people in the social community?

        •    Maybe use the term “agents” instead

    o “centers of uncertainty”

    o Alan – swarming – entity neutral

    o RDF-like model of language?

    o Alan – social mark-up language? Annotate and read social relationships in the background

    o Difficulty of deleting facebook profile

    o Augmented reality

        •    Online vs. face to face interactions

    o Second order uses of social computing (wheresgeorge.com – website that does currency tracking)   

    o Rudimentary facebook mark-up language – ftml