Towards creation of a communications support environment: Studies on community knowledge creation support in knowledge network society

Abstract

In this project, the research and development of information and communication technology are addressed that facilitate knowledge creation process of networked communities through an interdisciplinary approach integrating social psychology, cognitive psychology, and information and communication engineering. The major results obtained from this project so far is a proposal of an interactive broadcasting system called the Public Opinion Channel (POC) for supporting community knowledge creation and a foundation for a novel interdisciplinary research concerning social intelligence design. In this article, the framework of POC will be reviewed and the major issues underlying POC will be described. Also discussed will be issues involved in generalizing the activities into a discipline that might be called interactive informatics.