Creating a personal-context oriented real-time dynamic and collaborative space

This paper describes a method for directly encoding and sharing the unique knowledge and perspective of Website-usage and relationships that each person using the Web holds. Knowledge sharing is achieved by creating a Real-time Dynamic Collaborative Space which combines a user's, their friends', and the public's combined knowledge in a new space. This new space provides a context in which the abstract properties of a user's knowledge is expressed through an intuitive visualization which uses real-world-space and behavior knowledge-sharing analogues for allowing the user to understand their Personal Web Context in relation to other people's. This new space and visualization is dynamic, reacting in real-time to a user's and their friends' changing knowledge of the Web. This paper describes the new space, the modeling of Web knowledge, and a discussion of implementation strategies and an in-progress prototype.