Amy's talk:

Background General （0 - 9:30）

Tech enables collaboration, and may tools emerge. However, online discussion is not moving forward. In fact, it's getting worse.

• Examples —- different news reports, also debates (1-3min)
• What's the problem? (3 - 5:30)
  • The scale (with examples)
  • Discussion circle - loss of context (with examples: piazza)
  • Competing norms
• What happened and why? (5:30 - 9:30)
  • The tools hasn't changed much
  • The power to curate

The overview (9:30 - 12:30)

• How to solve the issue? (9:30 - 12:30)
  • We need new tools for supporting discussion and empower the users to build their work
  • The PhD topic → the three scopes, intro of each work
    • summarizing large talk - scale
    • Place discussions in context → context
    • Configure delivery of content → competing norms
  • The Main Research Method → generate, build, deploy, loop

Part 1: Summarization (12:30 - 27:00)

Wikum :(12:30 - 20:00)

• Background: it would be good if there's summary in the forum
  • example: wiki + forum, quora
  • Problem (13:30)
• Wikum: recursive summarization, using animation to show concept (14:30)
• Example: Madrid (not reading comments). → tool in action (demo w different features)(16:30)
• Evaluation: comparing with gdoc (with metrics, graphs), also some interesting findings (18:00)

-25

• Impact: (collaborate with Wikipedia) (19:30), (with other citizen platforms)(20:00)

Group chat summary : (20 - 27:00)

• Transit wikum concept to group chat
• Problem: get away then back, need to digest (21:30) -7