User types

From CENS Urban Sensing

Loosely there seem to be three types, with increasing intentionality and engagement - not just with technology but within a place or a microculture:

if being involved/implicated and engaged in some things, places, microcultures, comminities, etc (but of course not all) is good, then platform design choices should support movement in that direction, interested->engaged->implicated, in response to an appropriate commitment on behalf of the user.

the interested user

• I am interested in X. (interest)
• I am anonymous. (disengagement)
• navigate dimensions, categories, summaries
• QOS: enable browsing microcultures and spaces, aggegrate information
• drill-down + time spent yields the engaged user

the engaged user

• I know X. (knowledge)
• I am with X. (association)
• I am in X. (presence - space)
• I link X with Y. (connection)
• choose the dimension to explore in, probably from a starting point, navigate
• QOS: enable communication, commenting within a microculture of space
• original contribution yields the implicated user

the involved (implicated?) user

• I am X. (identity)
• I spend time here. (presence - place)
• I made this. (ownership)
• implicated through action (civic participation)
• implicated through the act of observing (civic journalism)
• wants to get others engaged, implicated
• QOS: enable capture, actuation within a microculture or location
• further engagement yields the obsessed user (just kidding)

What about a matrix of user types to important concepts about the systems we're describing?