UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM presents "Social Intelligence, Tacit Knowledge, and Collective Action" speaker: Dr. Satinder P. Gill Topological Media Lab Georgia Institute of Technology, USA 9 June 2004 (Wednesday) Lecture Theatre LC108 Hatfield, College Lane Campus 3 - 4 pm Coffee/tea and biscuits will be available. Everyone is Welcome to Attend [Space Permitting] Abstract: Knowledge as performance, or know-how, resides in experiencing, beliefs, values, emotions, attitudes, and responses. Understanding knowledge as skilled performance in cooperative action, is central to this discussion. Skilled cooperative action means being able to understand the communicative situation and know how and when to respond appropriately for the purpose at hand. This skill is of the performance of knowledge in co-action (Gill and Borchers, 2003), situated in the formation of legitimate peripheral participation (Lave and Wenger, 1991), and is a form of social intelligence for sustainable interaction. Social Intelligence, here, denotes the ability of actors and agents to learn and to solve problems as a function of social structure and to manage their relationships with each other. A challenge is to create mediating interfaces that can facilitate social intelligence. To discuss this, a study is presented, of the way people use surfaces that afford graphical interaction, in collaborative design tasks, in order to inform the design of intelligent user interfaces. _________________________________________________________________ Hertfordshire Computer Science Research Colloquium Abstracts On-line: http://homepages.feis.herts.ac.uk/~nehaniv/colloq/