Title :
Creating Digital Places for Culture and Community
Author :
Srinivasan, Ramesh
Author_Institution :
Harvard Univ. Graduate Sch. of Design, Cambridge, MA
Abstract :
This abstract discusses a doctoral research at the Harvard Design School. This research is focused around a set of Kumeyaay Native American communities based in the San Diego region of Southern California. This paper discusses the mechanism of collecting, structuring, and disseminating video, audio, and image-based narratives and artifacts that are submitted by community members. In particular, this paper discusses my hypothesis that an intelligently designed Web infrastructure that employs a proactive agent can provide communities with the ability to archive cultural information, expand their social networks, and engage in important processes of communication that may be currently lacking as a result of existing dynamics
Keywords :
Internet; information dissemination; information retrieval systems; software agents; audio-based narrative; cultural information archiving; image-based narrative; information collection; information dissemination; information structuring; intelligently designed Web infrastructure; proactive agent; social networks; video-based narrative; Bridges; Cultural differences; Environmental economics; Focusing; Global communication; Intelligent agent; Intelligent networks; Process design; Social network services; Space technology;
Conference_Titel :
Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing, 2004 IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Rome
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8696-5
DOI :
10.1109/VLHCC.2004.17
