Re-place-ing space: the roles of place and space in collaborative systems
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The order of things: activity-centered information access
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This position paper reflects a line of research that focuses on patterns of human activity over time. We aim to fit, show and support human activity via a rich record of people's motion amongst information, tools, other people, and space. We have built tools that track activity in the web and local files, and are now extending them to track motion amongst the streets of the city and the artifacts of a local museum. They make recommendations for movement and selection that are specific to the ongoing context of each user. Our intention is to treat physical and electronic objects as uniformly as possible, concentrating on their similarities as information bearing entities, rather than on their different characteristic media. A higher-level aim is to build systems that conform to contemporary models of language and semiology, that offer a unifying view of information based on its role in human activity and interpretation.