Knowledge Architects design for
interactivity — they design spaces that come to life with the
interactions of those who use them.
In our designs, people enjoy interacting because
they are delighted with surprise, compelled to wonder, intrigued
to find out.
The Content of Conceptual spaces
The spaces that Knowledge Architects
design are conceptual — they have to do with how interacting
with media enables people to generate concepts, knowledge and understanding
from the content provided.
In our designs, we anticipate what will be needed
to understand and we evoke the development of concepts in the user
Inspiring Insightful Media
Knowledge Architects believe
that new digital media such as CD/DVD-ROM, Internet, interactive
digital television can develop the interactivity necessary to stimulate
deep understanding, inspiration and insight.
Using a stochastic event model, we make interactive
multimedia stories that evolve with the user and are never encountered
the same way twice.
Dimensionality of Dynamic Interactions
Knowledge Architects design dynamic
interactions that enable the user/participant to generate conceptual
dimensionality that mirrors the nature of their interactions with
each other.
We design dynamic character development for
interactive digital television so that the viewer is engaged and
involved with the program.
Intelligence is never Artificial
Knowledge Architects design advanced
socio-technic systems so that people and their machines can be in
a mutually supportive relationship. Intelligence in these systems
arises from the mind of the user and the design of the system.
We design systems that compose the data that
the user receives based on the patterns of how the user uses the
system.
Designing for Poiesis
Knowledge Architects respect
the user to create meaning from the interaction - whether it is
with a PDA, interactive television or the Internet.
We design data structures that can be composed
through our PoiesisEngine™ to provide meaningful interactivity
regardless of device or technology.
People and Mutually Supporting Technology
Knowledge Architects deal with
both the social and technical domains as layers of interaction in
sociotechnic systems. It is important to understand the integrated
and dynamic nature of both human requirements and technological
capacity as a composite unity.
When dealing with the social aspects of our
emerging world of techncial convergence, it is important to remember
that the human aspects of communication and learning are not so
easily quantified and qualified as the technology which enables
them to take place across time and distance.
