Collaborative Symbolic Structuring in a Polyscopic Environment

Abstract

The problem of information overload was described by Vannevar Bush as early as 1945 in his article “As We May Think”, and as we continue to make it easier to create information we also increase the probability of getting lost in the maze. We seek to improve the quality of the information we create and the way we access it by combining the associative paths of Vannevar Bush, the symbolic structures of Douglas Engelbart and the principles of Polyscopy by Dino Karabeg, and show how these can all come together to form an untraditional approach to organizing information on the Web.