Context in use for analyzing conversation structures on the Web tied to the notion of situatedness

Abstract

Current trend in scientific collaboration focuses on developing effective communication Web media. One of its objectives is to provide informal communication opportunities for collaborating scientists. This paper focuses on analyzing conversation structures of actual collaboration scenarios on the Web. The conversations analyzed model context using hierarchy of learning and communication tied to situated cognition to help understand how users induce communication protocols on the Web. The paper focuses on the analysis of the conversation structures that uses context to identify what could possibly make up a context and to help understand how contexts are punctuated. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.