Models of interest
Mon Sep 27 21:54:58 BST 2004 Permalink
I'm trying to come up with a mathematic model that allows me to
expresses interests, their strengths, and how they change over
time. My original thinking was simply to model what is current as
most interesting and anything prior to that as less interesting on some
scale. But I started asking myself questions about how interests
are shaped and changed.
If I've been talking about nothing but, say, XML Topic Maps for a year and then I spend a week talking about my recent vacation to Hawaii. Well probably XTM is still the more important topic. So the model has to encompass ideas like continuity of interest. In the more realistic world where we talk about different things at once and leave and come back to topics as our interests wax and wane, well lets just say I don't have a clear shape for this in my head yet.
If I've been talking about nothing but, say, XML Topic Maps for a year and then I spend a week talking about my recent vacation to Hawaii. Well probably XTM is still the more important topic. So the model has to encompass ideas like continuity of interest. In the more realistic world where we talk about different things at once and leave and come back to topics as our interests wax and wane, well lets just say I don't have a clear shape for this in my head yet.