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Creating and navigating social and classroom spaces with gravity

Weidman, Jake; Kropczynski, Jessica

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Title
Creating and navigating social and classroom spaces with gravity
Author(s)
Weidman, Jake; Kropczynski, Jessica
Issue Date
2016-03-15
Keyword(s)
  • gravity
  • group structures
  • organization
  • classroom organization
  • algorithms
Date of Ingest
2016-03-08T22:51:56Z
Abstract
Gravity is one the principle forces in the universe, its power always apparent, giving us three-dimensional creatures a constant sense of “up” and “down”. We propose the use of a metric for applying gravity, or similar “pulling” forces, to social environments by weighting and reordering set network structures where links cannot be added, but nodes may be rearranged. We begin by introducing gravity in social networks, describe previous web applications and uses, and then briefly experiment with the metric within a classroom setting. To that point, we describe and design requirements to effectively apply our metric to classrooms, as well as other social spaces. Finally, we assert that by flavoring network structures with our so-called “gravity”, we make those structures inherently more navigable in terms of personality similarity, and perhaps indirectly, communication and learning.
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iSchools
Series/Report Name or Number
IConference 2016 Proceedings
Type of Resource
text
Genre of Resource
Conference Paper / Presentation
Language
eng
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/89322
DOI
https://doi.org/10.9776/16153
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Copyright 2016 is held by the authors. Copyright permissions, when appropriate, must be obtained directly from the authors.

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