Modeling Context, Collaboration, and Civilization in End-User Informatics

TL;DR

This paper explores how end-user informatics leverages practical prose as a communal modeling technology to automate and understand physical information and reality from the end-user perspective.

Contribution

It introduces a conceptual framework linking practical prose, physical information, and communal modeling in end-user informatics.

Findings

Practical prose functions as a mass consensus modeling medium.

Physical information in practical contexts is highly emergent.

End-user informatics aims to automate modeling of practical reality.

Abstract

End-user informatics applications are Internet data web management automation solutions. These are mass modeling and mass management collaborative communal consensus solutions. They are made and maintained by managerial, professional, technical and specialist end-users. In end-user informatics the end-users are always right. So it becomes necessary for information technology professionals to understand information and informatics from the end-user perspective. End-user informatics starts with the observation that practical prose is a mass consensus communal modeling technology. This high technology is the mechanistic modeling medium we all use every day in all of our practical pursuits. Practical information flows are the lifeblood of modern capitalist communities. But what exactly is practical information? It's ultimately physical information, but the physics is highly emergent rather than elementary. So practical reality is just physical reality in deep disguise. Practical prose is the medium that we all use to model the everyday and elite mechanics of practical reality. So this is the medium that end-user informatics must automate and animate.