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how the 4th dimension -communities of practice- defines or affects a tool? #6

Closed maryi closed 8 years ago

maryi commented 8 years ago

I was making the design for the interface and I got into this problem.. I understand how a tool for 0 communities would be different from another one that support different communities, but i just don't see why we would want to know "how many". According to the MoCA framework we should have from 0 to N.. any ideas?

mpaskevi commented 8 years ago

I think it provides a lens to further describe the coordinated action. We already collect the scale, or number of participants, so the number of communities of practice helps us describe the diversity within the group. Number of communities of practice helps us understand the intellectual diversity within the team engaging in coordinated action.

maryi commented 8 years ago

Hi @mpaskevi , yeap.. i think the same.. My question is more oriented towards how this information is useful for our app to recommend another application.... what difference would it make in our system if the user says 1 community or 6?

mpaskevi commented 8 years ago

Perhaps we can justify the appropriateness of the tool in relation to communities of practice based on its novelty versus pervasive usage? Whereas some tools may be quite niche (I might even put GitHub in the niche category), others are quite commons, for example skype or instant messaging might qualify here. The more communities of practice, the more we strive to recommend more common pervasively used tools? Just throwing ideas out there :)

maryi commented 8 years ago

@mpaskevi I like that approach :).. I agree with you