Folk computing: revisiting oral tradition as a scaffold for co-present communities

Authors:
Rick Borovoy;Brian Silverman;Tim Gorton;Matt Notowidigdo;Brian Knep;Mitchel Resnick;Jeff Klann
Affiliations:
MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames Street, Room E15-120B, Cambridge, MA;MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames Street, Room E15-120B, Cambridge, MA;MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames Street, Room E15-120B, Cambridge, MA;MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames Street, Room E15-120B, Cambridge, MA;MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames Street, Room E15-120B, Cambridge, MA;MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames Street, Room E15-120B, Cambridge, MA;MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames Street, Room E15-120B, Cambridge, MA
Venue:
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Year:
2001

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Abstract

In this paper, we introduce Folk Computing: an approach for using technology to support co-present community building inspired by the concept of folklore. We also introduce a new technology, called “i-balls,” whose design helped fashion this approach. The design of the i-ball environment is explained in terms of our effort to simultaneously preserve what works about folklore while also using technology to expand its power as a medium for community building.