Challenges of Knowledge Media Networking (Workshop Report)
Fawzi Daoud · Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastracture for Collaborative Enterprises · 2001
A knowledge media assisted community is a conglomerate of social, technical, material, historic, and environmental factors, and technology design must be understood as one ingredient within this field of relationships. There's a need to understand how widely differing types of participants (e.g. people or agents with particular domain-or culture-specific viewpoints; specialized data-gathering instruments), represent problem- and domain-specific entities or processes (e.g., protein molecules; organizational workflows), of differing representational level (e.g., sensory; cognitive), scale and complexity, for use in unique domain-specific activities (e.g. doing bioscience or doing collaborative design) via a variety of representational media and modalities (text, software, graphical 2D/3D data, simulations, in visual, audio, haptic modalities, etc.), under a range of specific constraints (e.g. size limitations, specificity constraints).