Notes on Conversation

Marc Pierson started a wiki as a means to collaboratively study conversation types.

I am animated, in that space, to think of conversation through the lens of Gordon Pask's Conversation Theory.

Also, in play in my worldviews, is the realization that we (humans) are Complex, Adaptive, Anticipatory Systems which provides a kind of theoretical fabric on which to grow ideas about advances in human conversation and the technology which can augment or support it.

I have in mind a simple Taxonomy of Conversation Styles with which to tie categories to various conversation technologies, examples of which are WorldCafe, Pol.is, Town Hall Meetings, and others.

Need to think about Quaternion Process Theory

Douglas Engelbart pioneered the notion of technology in the service of human capabilities Augmentation

Thomas P. Kehler is chief scientist at CrowdSmart which applies Active Inference to the conversations in that platform.

Narrative Construction as Sensemaking

Becoming very interested in Round-less Conversations