The Instinct to Frame Facts into a Story<br />mediaX at Stanford University - Mackenzie Room, Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center<br />Making Sense of Teamwork in Remote Collaboration<br />Leonard's work explores how productivity and contextual measures of engagement (e.g. number of questions answered or ideas generated) are affected by differences in physical space, technological capability and cultural interactions across distributed teams. He has co-created frameworks and software tools that help make these conditions transparent and explicit across teams. <br /><br />Social Media Folkonomies<br />Megan's work on folk theories of social feeds has examined people's implicit beliefs about how the Facebook News Feed and Twitter feed operate. Leveraging people's use of metaphors, she has found that there are four core folk theories for social feeds that tap into people's evaluation of a system, how they think the system works, and their beliefs about the system's intent.<br /><br />Your Brain on Story<br />Haven's research has confirmed that the brain is physically hardwired to make sense in specific story terms and in specific character-based story structures. Identifying this Neural Story Net and the Eight Essential Story Elements it uses to perform its Make Sense Mandate has led to insights into how brains automatically make sense of new information and experience, and of the dominant elements that control how we create meaning from that information.
