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Internet as a Social Ally
How do people use the Internet to solve problems? We find that a significant portion of online Americans turn to the Internet at times because it seems to fulfill their needs more readily and thoroughly than the people in their community network do. We present evidence of when people use the Internet versus seeking the assistance of friends and family and possible reasons for this behavior. This research demonstrates how, to what extent, when and why the Internet supplements people's lives.
Internet changes the rules for researchers
“The concern for internet research is that regulations are firmly rooted in face-to-face settings and the literature culture of paper and print,” Beddows says. “In order to relieve the problems associated with online research, there needs to be an effort made to develop methodological guidelines that take into account both the unique nature of the internet, and its relationship to the physical world.”
Augmented Social Cognition: CSCW2008 Paper on "Towards a Model of Understanding Social Search"
A teaser for our paper on social search (written by Ed Chi).
Cockatoo's extremely rare sense of rhythm may help explain how the brain relates to music
This is an awesome story of a neuroscientist who discovered Snowball, the Internet famous cockatoo whose favorite song is "Everybody" (Backstreet Boys). Scientist Patel theorized that "only certain types of brains can achieve musical beat p
“The Largest Social Network Ever Analyzed”
This is a short report of a study on "the largest social network ever analyzed."
crowdlog (Mike Krieger's blog)
I was just e-introduced to Mike Krieger and this great blog, reporting on research of user activities using the Mechanical Turk service.
Mechanical Turk: The Demographics
"One of the common misbeliefs about Mechanical Turk is that it is a virtual sweatshop"...Panos says not so. This post provides some demographics (age, gender, and location) for 300 turkers, collected over the course of 2-3 days.
Facebook Market Research Secrets
Great tips for previewing demographic segments in Facebook (like number of single men in the US).
E15: internet beyond the browser
Imagine an internet where you (not the site designer) were able to decide how to view and experience web content. E15 is a platform that enables end users to experience this internet, an internet beyond the browser.
Hold the front page | Economist.com
How to replace the editor with a computer
HIT-Builder for Amazon's Mechanical Turk
Here's some info on how to build a HIT using Amazon's Mechanical Turk.
Coding Horror: Every User Lies
The "paradox of the active user" is a paradox because users would save time in the long term by learning more about the system. But that's not how people behave in the real world, so we cannot allow engineers to build products for an idealized r
Looking for SF-Bay Area Diigo users!
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As part of a user study, I am looking for people who use bookmarking services online (like Diigo!).
We would like to ask you to complete a short survey. Although it is short, we greatly appreciate the time and effort you put into composing your responses! - bmevans on 2007-08-02 - As part of an extended user study, I am looking specifically for Diigo users! I am interested in how people organize and share information online and how does Diigo facilitate these activities. Diigo has many features other social bookmarking sites lack, so I need to find SF-Bay Area users who are willing to share their experiences with me (for compensation!). If you are interested in learning more, please email me: brynn.evans@parc.com. Or complete the survey on the website. Thanks! - bmevans on 2007-08-10
Enterprise Web 2.0 - Fad vs. Utility » SlideShare
- a slideshow by oracle on understanding and leveraging web 2.0 - bmevans on 2007-08-06
Luke Kowalski Blog : Luke Kowalski Blog
- the Web 2.0 + Enterprise (Lists !) - August 2, 2007 blog came out after Stu and Pete's brown bag at Oracle last week (early Aug 07). the group at oracle is active in user interface designs, UI technology, understanding web 2.0 technology, etc. - bmevans on 2007-08-06
InfoTangle :: The Hive Mind: Folksonomies and User-Based Tagging :: December :: 2005
- Today, users are adding metadata and using tags to organize their own digital collections, categorize the content of others and build bottom-up classification systems. The wisdom of crowds, the hive mind, and the collective intelligence are doing what heretofore only expert catalogers, information architects and website authors have done. They are categorizing and organizing the Internet and determining the user experience, and it’s working. No longer do the experts have the monopoly on this domain; in this new age users have been empowered to determine their own cataloging needs. Metadata is now in the realm of the Everyman. - bmevans on 2007-07-31
[cs/0508082] The Structure of Collaborative Tagging Systems
- Collaborative tagging describes the process by which many users add metadata in the form of keywords to shared content. Recently, collaborative tagging has grown in popularity on the web, on sites that allow users to tag bookmarks, photographs and other content. In this paper we analyze the structure of collaborative tagging systems as well as their dynamical aspects. Specifically, we discovered regularities in user activity, tag frequencies, kinds of tags used, bursts of popularity in bookmarking and a remarkable stability in the relative proportions of tags within a given url. We also present a dynamical model of collaborative tagging that predicts these stable patterns and relates them to imitation and shared knowledge. - bmevans on 2007-07-31
ScienceDirect - Information & Management : The mediation of external variables in the technology acceptance model
- AM specifies a pathway of technology acceptance, from external variables to beliefs, attitudes, and system usage. We tested one of its assumptions that the ‘perceived ease-of-use’ and ‘perceived usefulness’ constructs fully mediate the influence of external variables on usage behaviors. Using a survey of 125 employees of a U.S. Government agency we found, contrary to the normally accepted assumption, that external variables could have direct effects on usage behavior over and above their indirect effects. We also found that TAM is significantly and consistently better at predicting frequency than volume of usage. - bmevans on 2007-07-31
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