Charles Armstrong

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Charles Scott Armstrong (born September 14, 1971 in Portsmouth, UK) is an ethnographer and technologist. He developed the field of sociomimetics, the mirroring of social behaviour patterns in electronic information systems, as a technique to enhance their effectiveness.

Armstrong graduating from St John's College, Cambridge in 1993 with a degree in Social and Political Sciences. His work on sociomimetics commenced with a year-long ethnographic study in the Isles of Scilly during 1999 investigating the social behaviours involved in distributing information through the island communities. During this period Michael Young became Armstrong's mentor, a role which continued until Young's death in 2002. Small-scale prototyping during 2001 and 2002 led to the formation in 2003 of Trampoline Systems Limited, which is developing large-scale information management applications based on sociomimetic principles.