Knowledge Sharing Media
For Group Memory
And Collaborative Brainstorming

Outline

What are knowledge sharing media?

Digital knowledge sharing media

Two Knowledge Media

Questions and Answers

Plexus: The Spatial Metaphor

Why spatial Q’s and A’s?

6.034:  Information Architecture

6.034:  Rules of Discourse

Plexus Interface

Plexus: Spatial vs. Hypertext Views

Plexus: Evaluation and Future Work

Outline

Whimsy: Capturing Ideas

What is Brainstorming?

Why a digital medium for brainstorming?

Brainstorming: Five design goals

Goal 1:  Expressibility
 Sketching and explaining

Goal 2: Accessibility
Pick up and use

Goal 3: Preservation
 Archiving and navigating, or

Goal 4: Reminding

Goal 5: Group and Individual

Whimsy: Some Hard Problems

Whimsy: Research Approach

Digital knowledge sharing media

Design Rationale Capture

Summary