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Note: Mobile is support is limited at this time. We encourage you to try the tool on a desktop device.
Please cite the following two papers if you are using our tool or dataset. Thanks!
Adam G Emerson, Shreyosi Endow, and Cesar Torres. 2024. Anther: Cross-Pollinating Communities of Practice via Video Tutorials. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1991–2005. https://doi.org/10.1145/3643834.3660727
Adam G. Emerson*, Shreyosi Endow*, and Cesar Torres. 2024. Shared, Shaped, and Stolen: Tracing Sites of Knowledge Transfer across Creative Communities of Practice. In Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Creativity & Cognition (C&C '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 638–650. https://doi.org/10.1145/3635636.3656199
Communities of practice (CoPs) play a crucial role in cross-pollination and learning within various skill-based and craft domains. These communities often share common materials, concepts, and tech- niques across related practices. However, due to their insular nature, exchanging knowledge between CoPs has been challenging, leading to fragmented knowledge marked by difering vocabularies and con- texts. To address this issue, we introduce Anther, a system designed to highlight shared concepts and semantic overlap between distinct CoPs. Anther projects concepts onto a 2-dimensional space, provid- ing users with comprehensive, contextual, and conceptual views. We conducted a user study, demonstrating Anther’s efectiveness in aggregating and disseminating community-based knowledge, bridg- ing gaps between CoPs, and supporting the cross-pollination of knowledge between CoPs. Further, we present interaction vignettes that illustrate how Anther can ease entry into new domains and aide in discovering new creative techniques. This work can beneft maker communities by fostering collaborative knowledge-building across diverse domains.
Anther is a Cross-Pollination Creativity Support Tool (CP-CST) that aims to connect communities by exposing the linguistic and semantic similarities between different Communities of Practice. The tool is designed to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration and to help users contextualize their knowledge as they explore new domains.
Anther was built on a dataset of video tutorial transcripts built during our prior research. The tool uses a combination of Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to extract concepts and keywords from the transcripts. These concepts are then ranked and projected onto a 2D space. The resulting visualization allows users to explore the semantic relationships between different communities of practice.
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This can be caused if the materialized table that stores the quotes is empty. If the application is inactive for a number of days, Supabase may "pause" the database instance, which apparently drops the materialized views.
To fix this, simply run the following SQL query in the Supabase SQL editor:
REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW mat_quotes;This is caused by the same as above, but for the mat_token_tfpdf materialized view.
To fix this, simply run the following SQL query in the Supabase SQL editor:
REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW mat_token_tfpdf;