[Sigia-l] "Social Interface"

[Eric Scheid]

On 9/9/04 12:02 PM, "Boniface Lau" <boniface_lau at compuserve.com> wrote:

> It is indeed an interesting read. However, the article's perspective on what
> social interface is seems to be very different from others. Here are the
> "social interface" examples from the article:
> 
Joel is using the term "social interface" as an abbreviation of "interface
for a software mediated social environment" [1], which is quite a mouthful.

That's not to detract from the separate definition [2] which Tourangeau
refers to, although Tourangeau himself "find[s] little support for the
social interface hypothesis."

e.

[1] or words to that effect, ie. not an exact quote
[2] http://www.fcsm.gov/01papers/Tourangeau.pdf