Communities through Time: Using History for Social Navigation

  • Authors:
  • Alan Wexelblat

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Community Computing and Support Systems, Social Interaction in Networked Communities [the book is based on the Kyoto Meeting on Social Interaction and Communityware, held in Kyoto, Japan, in June 1998]
  • Year:
  • 1998
  • Towards Computation over Communities

    Community Computing and Support Systems, Social Interaction in Networked Communities [the book is based on the Kyoto Meeting on Social Interaction and Communityware, held in Kyoto, Japan, in June 1998]

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Abstract

Communities distributed in time cannot interact directly. I propose that they can form and interact through histories recorded with digital information. The field of interaction history is defined and examples of tools built to help a communal process (social navigation) are shown. Ways in which these tools can aid the formation of certain kinds of communities are described.