Towards dynamic knowledge interaction

This paper overviews an interdisciplinary study aimed at developing an information technology that facilitates co-evolution of human and knowledge networks in a community. This study combines approaches from social psychology, cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence, to explore a new research field aiming to understand and facilitate dynamic knowledge interaction that may bring about mutual understanding and knowledge evolution in a community. One prominent feature of this study is the use of the public opinion channel (POC) as a common conceptual framework for integrating pieces of work in our approach. The POC is characterized as a novel communication medium that continuously collects messages from people in a community and feeds edited messages back to them. Each work in the interdisciplinary study addresses certain aspects of POC. The POC serves as an important milestone towards dynamic knowledge interaction