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LILT, Dept. of ICS • University of Hawai`i at Manoa • 1680 East-West Road, POST 309 • Honolulu, HI 96822 • 1-808-956-3890
a web-based environment for artifact centered discourse
"Kukakuka" is Hawai`ian for "discussion." It is properly spelled with macrons over the "u" and "a" to indicate long pronunciation: we're looking for web based fonts that do this!
Much of human discourse is centered on representational artifacts, yet web based applications don't support such discussion well. The solution is simple yet powerful. Discussion groups and threads are associated with web pages. Each thread's page is always visible when reading and posting messages within the thread. This guarantees that the context of the discussion is available without any special effort, and helps keep the discussion focused on the topic at hand.
Kukakuka is being designed with the objectives of being easy to use, applicable to any web page, and running within any web browser. These objectives constrain our design somewhat yet make the system usable by a broader community.
Kukakuka originated in a student project by Jun Xu and under the direction of Dan Suthers. Now many members of the LILT Team are involved.
See also Kukakuka's sister sytem, Pink, for another approach to artifact-centered discourse.
A public demonstration is available here.
